Jennifer Buckingham flags up the good news about classroom design in New South Wales:

https://twitter.com/buckingham_j/status ... 0971226112

UK Reading Reform Foundation committee member, Gillian Evans, has written a blog to describe a tribunal in Scotland which failed to reach the right conclusion for her dyslexic son - this was not a 'just' event: "All Learners in Scotland Matter”, No They Don’t – Dr Gillian Evans 22 June 2023 htt...

June 2023: Anne Glennie's petition has gone 'live' again - please read the update and sign the petition in support - thank you so much:

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Dear All, I do hope you will take a look at Anne Glennie's very simple petition urging the officials in Scotland to ensure teacher training in research informed reading instruction - specifically bringing them up to speed with 'systematic synthetic phonics' (the missing link!). It takes seconds to s...

There are always complex variables when trying to ascertain literacy results - not least being that countries have different languages and writing systems. Nevertheless, the latest PIRLS 2023 results indicate steadiness in England's results - whereas some other countries considered to be 'leading' (...

More States Are Using Science-Backed Reading Instruction. It Shouldn't Have Taken This Long. Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana have all seen dramatic improvements in reading scores by investing in "science-based" reading instruction. By Emma Camp May 2023 https://reason.com/2023/05/18/m...

5th May 2023 - here is an update featuring the Reading Recovery contributed by Cathryn Bjarnesen who says, " As an assessor of Specific Learning Disorders, I routinely see unrecovered Reading Recover y students. Not only do they lack the Basic Reading Skills for functional literacy, they have f...

And if parents and carers wish to learn more about teaching and learning the links between letters and sounds (phonics) for the three to five year olds, these free pre-school resources may be of interest: https://phonicsinternationalpreschool.com ' Teeny Reading Seeds ' resources are 'non-systematic...

Learning to read starts earlier than you might think: five tips from an expert

By Dr Karen Boardman

https://theconversation.com/learning-to ... ert-171561

I'm cross-referencing this thread with one featuring a lot of information about the challenge to the approach of Lucy Calkins that has occurred in America:

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