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- Sun Jun 12, 2016 8:50 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: David Didau replies to Michael Rosen on phonics and spelling
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5789
David Didau replies to Michael Rosen on phonics and spelling
http://www.learningspy.co.uk/literacy/can-phonics-help-us-spell-better/ An excellent rebuttal of Rosen's ill-founded and snide critique. Given that Rosen has been haunting David's blog, with increasingly ill-natured comments, I must admit I also thoroughly enjoyed David's conclusion: "I’m going to b...
- Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:59 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 'Becoming an academy does not insulate you from decline'
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17121
Re: 'Becoming an academy does not insulate you from decline'
I am wondering if there is any chance that academising primaries might actually improve phonics teaching in some schools, perhaps because they are no longer linked to LEAs, or become part of a chain that exposes them to other influences besides what other local schools are doing?
- Wed Jun 24, 2015 9:25 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Information for parents/governors
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4588
Re: Information for parents/governors
I forgot to say the increase also applies for level 3 (it's level 2 I'm talking about above).
The number of pupils who achieved the higher Level 3 in their reading has moved from a steady plateau of 25/26% in 2007-2011, to 31% this year - again in regular annual increments.
The number of pupils who achieved the higher Level 3 in their reading has moved from a steady plateau of 25/26% in 2007-2011, to 31% this year - again in regular annual increments.
- Tue Jun 23, 2015 7:12 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Information for parents/governors
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4588
Re: Information for parents/governors
This is from a post I've written elsewhere. The figures are taken from DoE reports of keystage 1 results for each relevant year. "Reading comprehension scores, as measured at the end of Key Stage 1, have risen from their previous plateau, particularly among SEN children: Number of children achieving...
- Fri May 15, 2015 5:21 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Is Reading Recovery still funded directly by the government?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3902
Re: Is Reading Recovery still funded directly by the government?
Thanks for all the replies! I suspected it must now be funded from pupil premium or similar, but wanted to make sure. My enquiry was prompted by reading about a school where the SENCO was also the reading recovery teacher..
.I wonder how many there are of those?

- Wed May 13, 2015 7:38 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Is Reading Recovery still funded directly by the government?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3902
Is Reading Recovery still funded directly by the government?
Hi, does anyone know the answer to this? Thanks.
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 11:44 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Michael Rosen's 'understanding' and protestation mystifying!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6589
Re: Michael Rosen's 'understanding' and protestation mystifying!
I don't know whether this was one huge lie that this was going on or that he knows some particularly idiotic heads. I remember that. He used the word "some" headteachers, and was careful not to specify an actual number. Of course, given that there are 17,000 primary schools in England, it's quite p...
- Wed Apr 29, 2015 9:47 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Michael Rosen's 'understanding' and protestation mystifying!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6589
Re: Michael Rosen's 'understanding' and protestation mystifying!
Excellent critique, Debbie. I hope you are sending a copy to the magazine in question. Rosen is a master of rhetorical technique, and the art of implying fallacious or unsupported ideas in a way that allows him a strategic retreat or sidestep if challenged. Most people simply don't recognise how the...
- Fri Apr 10, 2015 3:17 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Some Bank Holiday light reading
- Replies: 10
- Views: 9152
Re: Some Bank Holiday light reading
I love the fact that "writing reports in science" is an innovation ...unfortunately in many primary schools it would be, with comic strips and posters, or groupwork with one pupil acting as scribe being preferred as more "engaging" .
- Wed Jan 07, 2015 5:35 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: PGCE and phonics
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2465
PGCE and phonics
Apparently the Bristol PGCE tutors were still rubbishing phonics as recently as 2011, according to this blog:
http://mrbunkeredu.wordpress.com/2015/0 ... d-told-me/
http://mrbunkeredu.wordpress.com/2015/0 ... d-told-me/
- Fri Oct 31, 2014 6:52 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Papermover v RR teacher
- Replies: 86
- Views: 46064
Re: Papermover v RR teacher
Jenny, I think it may just have been speculation. You make a good point about the difficulty of keeping track.
- Fri Oct 31, 2014 9:43 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Papermover v RR teacher
- Replies: 86
- Views: 46064
Re: Papermover v RR teacher
Oh, right, thanks Kenm. I'd forgotten about the dip. It's just that when I recently encountered the explanation that some teachers were just stopping the test at 32 (to "save time" or whatever), I was embarrassed to realise that idea hadn't occurred to me! However, I suppose there is no reason why b...
- Thu Oct 30, 2014 4:16 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Papermover v RR teacher
- Replies: 86
- Views: 46064
Re: Papermover v RR teacher
I thought the non-cheating explanation for the spike - that some teachers were just stopping the test as soon as child hit 32 mark - sounded plausible?
- Fri Oct 24, 2014 7:08 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Papermover v RR teacher
- Replies: 86
- Views: 46064
Re: Papermover v RR teacher
They are selling Henrietta Dombey's view of phonics in their publications section:
https://www.clpe.org.uk/publication/17
https://www.clpe.org.uk/publication/17
- Sat Oct 18, 2014 4:42 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: What puts children off reading?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3115
Re: What puts children off reading?
And an excellent response to the piece from The Quirky Teacher: http://thequirkyteacher.wordpress.com/2014/10/18/why-there-is-no-reading-for-pleasure-anymore/ Guided reading sessions tend to be half an hour every day. In my experience, they are the most stressful and noisy sessions in the primary ti...