Martin Kozloff wrote this summary of the folly of Reading Recovery 11 years ago. What is so very telling is that Reading Recovery is still going strong - internationally - to this day. It seems that there is nothing to stop the juggernaut - no amount of scientific findings and overt challenge to the...

Here you can access a collection of 'interviews' and video snippets from many of the world's experts in the field of reading: The Children of the Code Project is a ‘case in point’ for how poorly our society understands learning and the personal and societal costs of unhealthy learning. Consisting of...

Questions often arise as to the efficacy and advisability of 'Guided Reading' and so I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread on this topic. I'm launching with an excellent post by Gordon Askew via his 'ssphonix' blog: http://ssphonix.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/throw-out-throwbacks-please_7.h...

This might be helpful to glue into the school reading record book:

http://www.rrf.org.uk/pdf/parentsguidanceforreading.pdf

This mini Alphabetic Code Chart might also be useful for parents to complement the parents' guide:

http://alphabeticcodecharts.com/DDD_par ... bleTop.pdf

http://www.societyforqualityeducation.org/index.php/ What We Believe The People Behind SQE First and foremost, we are mostly parents and now, in some cases, grandparents. Most of us have at least one child who had serious problems at school - difficulty learning to read; lack of challenging material...

http://www.wisconsinreadingcoalition.org/home On a Mission The Wisconsin Reading Coalition is a grassroots movement of parents, educators, advocacy organizations, health professionals, and business leaders committed to bringing scientifically-based reading instruction and intervention to all Wiscons...

IFERI has paid tribute to Sam Blumenfeld's huge contribution to literacy via our blog:

http://www.iferi.org/samuel-blumenfeld- ... #comment-3

One of our IFERI committee members, Bob Sweet, knew Sam Blumenfeld personally and here he writes about the first time he met Sam and developments following that event as testimony to Sam's important contribution to literacy and what a wonderful, caring man he was: It was 1981. The occasion was the R...

About Sam Blumenfeld:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Blumenfeld

Some of Sam's articles:

https://www.home-school.com/Articles/co ... enfeld.php

Sam Blumenfeld has made a huge contribution to the reading debate and to education particularly in America. http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/crimes-of-the-educators-author-dies/ IN MEMORIUM 'CRIMES OF THE EDUCATORS' AUTHOR DIES 'Lonely voice in the wilderness' on topic of trouble in public schools Blumenf...