Here is the study: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1525740118789061 Effectiveness of Preschool-Wide Teacher-Implemented Phoneme Awareness and Letter-Sound Knowledge Instruction on Code-Based School-Entry Reading Readiness Karyn L. Carson, PhD, BSLT, Anne E. Bayetto, MEd, Anna F. B. Rober...

21st August 2018, Anne Glennie tweets her alarm re the launch of Reading Recovery in Scotland: I actually feel physically sick reading this 'news' about Reading Recovery launching in Scotland. No longer funded in its place of birth (New Zealand) but we're lapping it up here. #despair http://www.gtcs...

I have been contacted by teachers and parents in England re their concern about Reading Recovery entrenched in their local authority or in their child's school. Now Anne Glennie flags up her despair via Twitter re the launch of Reading Recovery in Scotland: http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewtopic...

And now a Reading Recovery launch in Scotland. Anne Glennie wrote this tweet: I actually feel physically sick reading this 'news' about Reading Recovery launching in Scotland. No longer funded in its place of birth (New Zealand) but we're lapping it up here. #despair http://www.gtcs.org.uk/News/teac...

Michael Pettavel responds to Damien Hinds initiative for closing the vocabulary gap in Nursery World : One size doesn’t fit all 19 August 2018 by Michael Pettavel, head teacher, Brougham Street Childcare and Nursery School, Skipton The Government is making empty policy claims when it should let thos...

Researchers urge phonics lessons for all preschoolers Rebecca Urban, The Australian, August 21, 2018 Education researchers are calling for explicit phonics instruction to be rolled out during preschool, following a study that revealed four-year-olds showed improved reading readiness after just 13½ ...

https://www.tes.com/news/if-we-truly-want-all-children-thrive-reading-we-need-introduce-phonics-early-years 'If we truly want all children to thrive in reading, we need to introduce phonics in early years' Every child, whether they are on free school meals or not, should be able to reach the expecte...

Nancy Young from Canada responds to the Phonics Debate in Australia with a three-part blog commentary relative to teaching in Canada:

Wake up Canada!

https://www.nancyyoung.ca/blog