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by Susan Godsland
Wed Jun 22, 2016 1:34 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Is there a role for predictable texts in beginning reading instruction?
Replies: 8
Views: 51156

Re: Is there a role for predictable texts in beginning reading instruction?

Australian professor Misty Adoniou rightly rails against formulaic leveled reading schemes but gets it wrong in the end. How should reading be taught in schools? https://theconversation.com/how-should-reading-be-taught-in-schools-61361 Misty is right! These levels are based on algorithms that calcul...
by Susan Godsland
Wed Jun 22, 2016 11:22 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Response to Intervention or Really Terrible Instruction?
Replies: 3
Views: 16742

Re: Response to Intervention or Really Terrible Instruction?

COPAA have issued this policy statement re. RTI COPAA: Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates ''Protecting the Legal and Civil Rights of Students with Disabilities'' Response to Intervention Policy Statement https://copaa.site-ym.com/page/RTI Furthermore, recent research on the efficacy of RTI ha...
by Susan Godsland
Wed Jun 01, 2016 5:09 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: 'Sight words' - What does this mean? There is good news and bad news....
Replies: 16
Views: 34781

Re: 'Sight words' - What does this mean? There is good news and bad news....

People interpret the meaning of the term 'sight word' in different ways. The most common understanding is that sight words are high frequency words (HFWs/very common words in print) which need to be learnt as whole shapes using visual memory only. This is advocated by infant teachers who use mixed-m...
by Susan Godsland
Mon May 30, 2016 11:18 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Is there a role for predictable texts in beginning reading instruction?
Replies: 8
Views: 51156

Re: Is there a role for predictable texts in beginning reading instruction?

In the RRF newsletter no.50 Debbie Hepplewhite wrote: [Below] are examples of full texts from the lowest level of Book Bands and these are frequently given to children who have only been introduced to some of the letter-sound correspondences. You can see that predictable repetitive texts are still t...
by Susan Godsland
Sun May 01, 2016 2:16 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Robyn Ewing: Teaching literacy is more than teaching simple reading skills
Replies: 3
Views: 13589

Re: Robyn Ewing: Teaching literacy is more than teaching simple reading skills

Just found out that Prof. Pamela Snow mentioned the David Hornsby 'phonics' publication in an earlier Snow Report post:

Santa Claus, Homeopathy, and Phonics: Where's the link?
http://pamelasnow.blogspot.co.uk/2015/0 ... onics.html
by Susan Godsland
Sun May 01, 2016 1:09 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Robyn Ewing: Teaching literacy is more than teaching simple reading skills
Replies: 3
Views: 13589

Re: Robyn Ewing: Teaching literacy is more than teaching simple reading skills

David Hornsby, one of the authors of this paper: The Place of Phonics in Learning to Read and Write http://www.alea.edu.au/documents/item/773/, added to the comments section: English spelling is more influenced by morphemes than phonemes, which is one of its strengths. For example, when we understan...
by Susan Godsland
Tue Apr 26, 2016 12:58 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Robyn Ewing: Teaching literacy is more than teaching simple reading skills
Replies: 3
Views: 13589

Robyn Ewing: Teaching literacy is more than teaching simple reading skills

This post on the 'Australian Association for Research in Education' blog is creating lots of comments. Teaching literacy is more than teaching simple reading skills: it can’t be done in five easy steps By Robyn Ewing ''Robyn Ewing is Professor of Teacher Education and the Arts at the University of S...
by Susan Godsland
Mon Feb 22, 2016 1:44 pm
Forum: Around the World: News and Events
Topic: Wales: Fears for 26,000 11-year-olds 'unable to read properly'
Replies: 2
Views: 7681

Re: Wales: Fears for 26,000 11-year-olds 'unable to read properly'

These past threads re. the curriculum and teaching of reading in Wales, from the RRF message board, can help explain the problem: http://www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5777 http://www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=5598 http://www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtop...
by Susan Godsland
Fri Feb 12, 2016 3:00 pm
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Professor Julian (Joe) Elliott - 'The Dyslexia Debate'
Replies: 22
Views: 56070

Re: Professor Julian (Joe) Elliott - 'The Dyslexia Debate'

David Didau's latest blog post on dyslexia led to an interesting stream of exchanges on twitter. N.B. not all tweets transcribed . I started it off by tweeting Prof Joe Elliott to tell him about David's post as it included quotes from his (and Grigorenko) book 'The Dyslexia Debate'. Prof Elliott: Th...
by Susan Godsland
Tue Feb 09, 2016 4:27 pm
Forum: Around the World: News and Events
Topic: CLPE, NAAE, NATE & UKLA's new plans for teaching reading.
Replies: 6
Views: 14531

CLPE, NAAE, NATE & UKLA's new plans for teaching reading.

The 'mixed-method'-advocating organisations in England have got together to produce a series of documents which are, at heart, a plea for a return to past times (pre the 2006 Rose Report) when their advice on the teaching of reading held sway in schools. Curriculum and Assessment in English 3 to 19:...