This fundamental question about the efficacy of Reading Recovery continues to this day - I'm linking this thread to another looking at the 'evidence' behind the perpetuation of Reading Recovery and the Bookbanding cataloguing system followed by virtually all publishers of children's reading books on...

Even in the 1990s Reading Recovery was being recognised as not being fit-for-purpose for intervention - and the Reading Recovery methods of assessing effectiveness were under scrutiny and highly questionable: http://pages.uoregon.edu/bgrossen/rr.htm And yet here we are, decades later, and still Read...

We've introduced a new feature on the IFERI site - 'inform' factsheets - see the ones below with reference to this topic: The Synthetic Phonics Teaching Principles (includes guidance for reading when asking children to read independently): http://www.iferi.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IFERI-INFORM...

Awareness is rising globally that 'phonics' is an important component of 'being a reader' although the degree of importance of phonics in the English language with its very complex alphabetic (phonics) code is still not yet commonly known and understood well enough. Explicit, systematic phonics teac...

Here is a US-based article on the effect of poverty on pre-schoolers: How Growing Up in Poverty Rewires a Child’s Developing Brain http://t.co/3QX001zgLE Decades of scientific research have suggested that a child’s early life experience has the power to profoundly affect his or her learning. One of ...

A very warm welcome to you, little voices, we look forward to working with you via our forum and organisation to try and improve the situation regarding the persistence of multi-cueing practices. Thank you for joining us and supporting our work. By describing your experiences, you help to reveal wha...

Great to see the Learning Difficulties Australia eNewsletter announcing the new IFERI organisation - thanks to all concerned! IFERI - a new force in advocacy http://us9.campaign-archive1.com/?u=6c6f6b62488c4f92aabc94e4e&id=43f0edc74c Please do circulate via facebook, Twitter and any contacts who...

Yay! Our very own Anne Glennie has been invited to speak at the forthcoming researchED conference in Glasgow, Scotland: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/researched-scotland-tickets-16704285969 Just like IFERI, the researchED organisation endeavours to bring people together of all roles and responsibilit...

This posting via the 'Thinking Reading' blog raises questions about Reading Recovery: Are all reading interventions created equal? https://thinkingreadingwritings.wordpress.com/2015/05/24/are-all-reading-interventions-created-equal/ And importantly, the posting above leads to this posting via the 'H...

Here is IFERI's page about the Year One Phonics Screening Check which we encourage everyone internationally to take advantage of because of its free availability and the fact it enables anyone to measure their teaching effectiveness against the baseline and year on year results of teachers in Englan...