Green Eggs and Ham:
Or The Case for Phonics Instruction and Decodable Text
By Matthew Davis

http://www.coreknowledge.org/mimik/mimi ... honics.pdf

''Is there a role for predictable texts in beginning reading instruction?'' Juel and Roper/Schneider. Reading Research Quarterly 18: 'The selection of text used very early in first grade may, at least in part, determine the strategies and cues children learn to use, and persist in using, in subsequ...

The number of children classed as having special needs has fallen dramatically. https://www.bera.ac.uk/bera-in-the-news/number-of-children-classed-as-having-special-needs-falling-dramatically. The Department for Education says the main reason is that many pupils were wrongly identified as SEN in the...

Here's a thorough review of Joe Elliott's book The Dyslexia Debate

http://edrev.asu.edu/index.php/ER/article/view/1891/509

Do read this report of the implementation of the synthetic phonics programme Phonics International in an Australian primary school. http://www.phonicsinternational.com/Phonics%20International%20in%20Primary%20Education.pdf Impact on results Our Year 3 2013 and 2014 NAPLAN results in Reading reflect ...

Hello 'little voices', I suspect you're in Australia? All the available scientific research evidence points to systematic synthetic phonics (taught as part of a language and literature curriculum) being the most effective method to teach people of all ages how to read (decode) and spell in countries...

David Didau is a secondary English teacher, freelance writer, speaker and trainer.
He's written some excellent blog posts on literacy from a secondary school perspective and on dyslexia.

http://www.learningspy.co.uk/

Today the Schools Minister Nick Gibb made a speech at the Education Reform Summit. The Purpose of Education. https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/the-purpose-of-education The subject of phonics and teaching reading was threaded throughout his speech. The phonics screening check and its role in hel...

This week’s TES anti-phonics piece is snuck into an article which is mostly about maths. https://www.tes.co.uk/news/school-news/breaking-views/after-diktats-phonics-are-teachers-really-free-choose-how-teach There is strong evidence supporting the use of phonics to teach reading. But the government d...

There's a new Teach Primary magazine dedicated to the teaching of reading and writing. Sounds good? The 1st issue is available to view here: http://www.teachprimary.com/preview/reading-and-writing/reading-writing/#4/z Michael Rosen has written an article for the magazine which is, predictably, anti-...