The Reading Reform Foundation (UK)

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Anne Glennie
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The Reading Reform Foundation (UK)

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http://www.rrf.org.uk/

The Reading Reform Foundation (RRF) is an organisation dedicated to campaigning for better teaching of reading in the English language. Their website has something to offer everyone who is interested in the teaching of reading.
As well as containing resources, assessments and newsletters, the real attraction of this site is the active forum. Based in the UK but with international appeal, you can find discussions, information and research on all aspects of reading and interact with experts in the field.
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Just to say that a 'new look' RRF website has been under construction and therefore the message forum has not been active in the way it has been historically.

Thankfully, the forum has now been updated, re=installed and is ready-to-go. Thank you for everyone's patience.

The RRF newsletters include an important record of developments in England from eclectic reading instruction methods (the 'searchlights' multi-cueing reading strategies of the National Literacy Strategy) to the mandated 'systematic synthetic phonics teaching principles' which do not include multi-cueing for guessing the words and which are now embedded in the 2014 national curriculum for English. The journey in England is indeed an interesting and important one both politically and educationally - and a journey that should be of interest in other parts of the world.

The RRF newsletters illustrate the challenges to the 'searchlights' reading strategies now replaced with the 'Simple View of Reading' (Gough and Tunmer, 1986) thanks to this recommendation in Sir Jim Rose's world-renowned independent review:

The RRF newsletters for England's context (it is tragic, immoral, that many teachers and others are still battling to replace multi-cueing word-guessing strategies in their countries, teacher-training establishments, schools and reading programme with the Simple View of Reading model and the 'Science of Reading':

http://rrf.org.uk/resources/newsletter-archive/

Sir Jim Rose's Final Report and other international 'evidence':

https://iferi.org/evidence/
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