Watch the video of Dr Jennifer Buckingham deliver her conference talk and shake your head in despair that there is so much and so many standing in the way of quality, evidence-informed reading instruction for all learners. It does not have to be this way.
Dr Jennifer Buckingham at researchED Melbourne, 1st July 2017
https://gregashman.wordpress.com/2017/0 ... july-2017/
In her presentation, Jen discusses the evidence for systematic synthetic phonics in the context of the five skill areas that are involved in reading. She also looks at some of the barriers to implementing this evidence.
Jennifer entitled her talk:
Like frogs in a water well: Why is it so difficult to bridge the research to practice gap in teaching reading?
