The Reading League organisation is making great strides in the United States. Read about the work of The Reading League and its mission statement: https://www.thereadingleague.org/science-of-reading/?utm_source=The+Reading+League&utm_campaign=cfff39e5de-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_05_01_05_43&utm_m...

This is an excellent post, amongst many other excellent posts, by the author of TheReadingApe blog. But what I don't understand, and I've said so via Twitter, is why the author of the blog does not signpost the information flagged up by the International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction,...

Journalists Emily Hanford and Christopher Speak continue to follow the story in America about the teaching of reading as a fundamental right - laying bare where the science of reading is not understood or followed, and where inequity results in further challenges to becoming a reader: Is learning to...

We should never under-estimate how long it takes to write posts such as this below for 'The Reading Ape' blog. Of course the IFERI forum is full of information showing clearly what a huge, and continuous, war there is regarding how best to teach reading - and this post illustrates this with many ref...

Here is some news about 'The Reading League Symposium: We're All in This Together' on Monday 27th April 2020:


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Primary teacher, Rob Randel, has done an outstanding job laying bare the inadequacies and flaws in the official guidance for teachers and others in Wales: Does #CurriculumforWales leave reading to chance? by Rob Randel https://15mfcymru.blogspot.com/2020/04/does-cfw-leave-reading-to-chance.html ...W...

Thank you to teacher Rob Randel for providing a link to the 'professional standards' for teachers in Wales. This is, quite frankly, not just dismaying - it's unaccountable when there is so much information about reading instruction readily available via the internet nowadays. Officials and advisors ...

Here is more detailed information about developments in the Department for Education and in Ofsted in England - clearly shining a light on the need for all stakeholders to be on board with evidence-informed reading instruction, the seriousness of this field, and the need to keep on championing the h...

This message is from Susan Godsland, also a founding committee member of the International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction. Susan has supplied some snippets of official documents in England. What this demonstrates is that in England it is not only the Department for Education that is on...

Further: Alicia Smith @AliciaFromTiny · 4m Replying to @debbiehepp Linda Siegel has also been retained by the Ontario Human Rights Commission for the current #RightToRead inquiry. Our Education ministry refuses to adopt evidence so we have been making the case that it is a human rights issue, see: h...