I'm linking this thread to another thread which basically shares the same theme of reading books for beginners:

Reading Recovery and Book Bands are obsolete

http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... ?f=2&t=410

I'm linking this thread to another started by Susan Godsland as it is relevant to this thread:

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

http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... ?f=2&t=469

Dr Kerry Hempenstall recently flagged up some studies involving the use of 'decodable texts'. Kerry wrote: Consider the cohort of people who need to be able to read well today, as compared to a hundred or more years ago – it is pretty much everyone. So, our methods to achieve this could begin with s...

Ruth wrote:

The Book Bands certainly don’t meet the requirement of the National Curriculum - that beginner readers should read books that are consistent with their developing phonic knowledge.

Good point - and this guidance is statutory and evidence-informed when all said and done.

Here is a summary of teaching and learning techniques that can be very effective, summarised by the Deans of Impact via a succinct pamphlet:

THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING

http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... ?f=4&t=511

Thanks to Dr Kerry Hempenstall for flagging up the following review findings (free articles): “Practicing a cognitive task consistently improves performance on that task and closely related tasks, but the available evidence that such training generalizes to other tasks or to real-world performance i...

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/opo.12316/full The effect of coloured overlays and lenses on reading: a systematic review of the literature Authors Philip G. Griffiths, Robert H. Taylor, Lisa M. Henderson, Brendan T. Barrett First published: 31 August 2016 Abstract Purpose There are many ...

Dianne Murphy on coloured lenses:

Blurred Vision

written by thinkreadtweet

Can coloured lenses solve reading problems?

https://thinkingreadingwritings.wordpre ... ed-vision/

Check out Australia's Learning Difficulties news bulletin: http://us9.campaign-archive2.com/?u=6c6f6b62488c4f92aabc94e4e&id=2bde5e2007&e=a8e48431b2 Congratulations to Maryanne Wolf: Maryanne Wolf inspires us! Professor Maryanne Wolf (pictured, right, with LDA president Dr Lorraine Hammond) w...

This article in the Times Educational Supplement is slanted at undermining the advent of the statutory Year One Phonics Screening Check in England and suggests the teaching of a far fewer letter/s-sound correspondences than is officially advocated: https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/...