Here is a section direct from the Annual Report about the teaching of reading and it includes a clear statement of Ofsted's intent to ' strengthen our focus on the inspection of reading '. Thanks entirely to the advent of the statutory Year One Phonics Screening Check, direct comparisons can be made...

I urge anyone in England visiting the IFERI forum to read the Annual Report featured in this thread. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ofsted-chief-inspector-launches-her-second-annual-report-on-state-of-education-and-childrens-care-in-england Ofsted Chief Inspector launches her second Annual Repor...

Maggie Downie, committee member of the UK Reading Reform Foundation, reviews Marie Clay's manual for training teachers in the Reading Recovery methodology: http://rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2774 This review was undertaken some time ago, but is there any evidence to show that Mar...

Belinda Dekker writes about her daughter's personal experience and consequences of the Reading Recovery intervention: The problem(s) with Reading Recovery https://dekkerdyslexia.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/recovering-from-reading-recovery/ Recovering from Reading Recovery I read about the new Reading R...

People need to know what it looks like to give beginners and strugglers books to read independently that they cannot read without word-guessing - the multi-cueing word-guessing promoted through Reading Recovery and the levelled books. See Alison Clarke's detailed analysis of Stephan's experience: Th...

There is a new resurgence of Reading Recovery promotion based on a longitudinal study in England that is causing outrage amongst many people from different countries as evidenced by the responses via Twitter. Science teacher/blogger, Greg Ashman, has posted a comment about this latest RR research vi...

I'm adding further links to the topic of research on Reading Recovery:

The Reading Wars and Reading Recovery: What Educators, Families, and Taxpayers Should Know

Pamela Cook
Deborah R. Rodes
Kay L. Lipsitz

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Tom Burkhard provides a 'comment' to Greg's post: KPMG have form. In February 2009 Policy Exchange published our report on Every Child A Reader , the main vehicle for funding Reading Recovery in England under New Labour. We reported that KPMG’s analysis claimed that “…by the age of 37, each illitera...

As I write, there is international outrage and incredulity being expressed via Twitter about the publication of yet another study of the Reading Recovery intervention programme - this time in England, claiming the long term effect of RR is better GCSE outcomes. I confess I am one of those people voc...