Canada: Nancy Young responds to the Phonics Debate in Australia with reference to teaching in Canada

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Canada: Nancy Young responds to the Phonics Debate in Australia with reference to teaching in Canada

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Nancy Young responds to the, now, infamous Phonics Debate in Australia describing how this is relevant to the teaching scenario in Canada:

Wake Up Canada!

August 15, 2018

...It’s Time to Get on Board with the Reading Science!
https://www.nancyyoung.ca/blog
A couple of weeks ago an important event took place in Sydney, Australia – one that very few Canadians realize provided a window into what is happening (or NOT happening) in our own education system.


The event? A public debate about phonics instruction (#PhonicsDebate). The topic was: Phonics in context is not enough: Synthetic phonics & learning to read.

I watched the taped event from Canada – and was riveted!
Here is the link to the Phonics Debate and various responses to it via our IFERI forum:

http://www.iferi.org/iferi_forum/viewto ... f=3&t=1044
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