'Five from Five' organisation promoting evidence-informed reading instruction

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'Five from Five' organisation promoting evidence-informed reading instruction

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Parents and teachers will find this site well worth a visit:

http://www.fivefromfive.org.au/how-to-teach-reading/
How To Teach Reading: Explicit Instruction

Major reviews of reading not only agree on the key components of reading programs – the five ‘keys’ to reading – but also the most effective way of teaching them. They find that explicit or ‘direct’ instruction is the most effective teaching method, especially for the fundamental code-based components ­―phonemic awareness and phonics.

According to Professor Keith Stanovich, “That direct instruction in alphabetic coding facilitates early reading acquisition is one of the most well established conclusions in all of behavioural science.”

Explicit instruction is a teaching model, rather than a specific teaching program. Explicit instruction has the following characteristics:

Teacher directed
Planned and sequenced lessons
Clear and detailed instructions and explanations
Content / skills are introduced in small steps
Practice after each step
Modelled and guided instruction and practice – (‘I do – we do – you do’)
Teaching to mastery
Frequent, systematic monitoring and feedback
High level of teacher-student interaction
Cumulative reviews and spaced practice
Explicit instruction in phonics

A specific form of explicit instruction has been found to be most effective for the teaching of phonics — a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) approach, in which letter–sound correspondences are taught in a clearly defined sequence, and the skills of blending and segmenting phonemes are assigned high priority. This approach contrasts with the less effective analytic phonics, in which the phonemes associated with particular graphemes are not taught in isolation (i.e., outside of whole words). In the analytic phonics approach, students are asked to analyse the common phoneme in a set of words in which each word contains the phoneme being introduced. Even less effective is implicit or incidental phonics instruction, in which letter-sounds are taught only in the context of guided text-reading.

The links below provide information about the evidence base for explicit instruction in general and for phonics in particular.
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Jennifer Buckingham's excellent PowerPoint presentation:

http://www.ccd.edu.au/events/conference ... search.pdf
Resistance to research: Why don't all children receive effective, evidence-based reading instruction?
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