Video footage of Mark Seidenberg via the National Center for Improving Literacy : What has scientific research taught us about how children learn to read? Submitted by: Parents & Families Posted on: 02/14/2019 - 1:46pm Topic: Beginning Reading, Interventions https://improvingliteracy.org/ask-an-...

As described by someone on Twitter, "Beautifully orchestrated lecture by Professor Kate Nation @ReadOxford. Watch The D F McKenzie Lecture - learning to read: linking biology and culture via cognition on @Livestream:" https://livestream.com/oxuni/bod-nation/videos/186984722?t=1549671285200...

You can compare the Australian results (South Australia) with England's 2018 results: https://iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1117 Overall more than four in five pupils (82%) met the expected standard in the phonics screening check this year, a one percentage point increase on 2017 res...

Here is a published response from the same news featured in the Adelaide Advertiser : Phonic revival The failure of many Year 1 students to read at least 28 words from a list of 40 does not surprise me. Years ago our son would have been among them. He still could not read when he was in Year 2 but h...

In response to these findings, popular teacher-blogger, Greg Ashman, wrote on Twitter: We are often told that there is no need for a phonics check because schools are already teaching phonics. Not so . Let's hope the widescale use of a Year One phonics check will give teachers and others in Australi...

Worrying findings using a Year One Phonics Check are revealed in The Daily Mail : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6702769/More-half-Year-One-students-fail-literacy-test-read-single-word.html More than half of Year One students fail literacy test and many cannot even read a single word More ...

On the topic of Dr Jonathan Solity and the 'Optima' programme, Dr Marlynne Grant wrote a post about it via the UK Reading Reform Foundation blog: The Optima Reading Programme by Dr Jonathan Solity: Does it Provide Optimal Results? A Paper by Dr Marlynne Grant http://rrf.org.uk/2017/01/28/the-optima-...

I'm cross-referencing this thread with further information alerting people to the lack of transparency of Reading Recovery research - which is 'pinned' on the 'General Forum': The Reading Wars and Reading Recovery: What Educators, Families, and Taxpayers Should Know https://iferi.org/iferi_forum/vie...

Dr Jennifer Buckingham writes an expose of the way Reading Recovery research findings are so often misrepresented because of missing statistics and missing information - I've added this Centre for Independent Studies policy document, published on 7th February 2019, to the 'Research and Recommended R...

Dr Jennifer Buckingham writes a clear summary exposing the manipulation of findings featured in so many reports on the expensive and flawed Reading Recovery programme: Reading Recovery: A Failed Investment Jennifer Buckingham https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2019/02/pp15.pdf? However, recent studi...