Here's what I've found out about teaching reading and Down's syndrome R + P interventions (interventions based on Reading Recovery methodology + Phonological Awareness training) Phonology with Reading programme (Nuffield Foundation.Language4Reading) was a research project using an R+P intervention w...

Thanks Frances. Ok, probably against Mumsnet rules, but here's Rosen's mention of phonics: Thank you everyone for your messages. I fully understand that people get very agitated about this phonics question. Just to be clear. I am not against the use of phonics in teaching children to read. What I'm ...

Someone has just pointed me in the direction of an article from the Sydney Morning Herald Nov. 2003. It mentions author Paul Jennings and his (then) new book The Reading Bug. Jennings admits that, whilst advocating whole language guessing strategies for everyone else's children, he taught his own da...

The Glass Floor and Frosted Glass Statistics

http://drjamesthompson.blogspot.co.uk/2 ... l?spref=tw

'Twitter outrage over headteacher's EYFS comments' http://linkis.com/nurseryworld.co.uk/i1YC8 In a video interview about how St George’s School in Battersea achieves its excellent results, headteacher Janet Hilary says, ‘What is the nonsense that we play every day in the early years? I’m not saying ...

Wonderful blog post commenting on the Jan Hilary, Head Teacher St George's School, video

https://thequirkyteacher.wordpress.com/ ... video-out/

A unique Spanish (Latin America) systematic synthetic phonics reading, writing and spelling programme written by Grace Vilar, from Argentina, and Debbie Hepplewhite.

http://alfabetizacionespanol.com/

Research, studying factors that predict children's reading ability, showed that in Britain the strongest predictor at age seven was the mother's level of education rather than the child's IQ (D.McGuinness Why Children Can't Read p29). As Tom Burkard explains, 'When teachers don't teach, the educatio...

Oh dear :sad: Head Teacher Tim Clarke writes about the phonics check. Alien words or an alien concept? https://timjumpclarke.wordpress.com/2015/06/01/alien-words-or-an-alien-concept/ Don’t get me wrong, I think phonics are an important strategy in learning to be a reader and for most children it is ...

It might be good fun to have a thread running where we can post all the excuses the Rosenati of this world come up with to prevent little children being taught to read quickly with phonics

We could always add to this thread?
http://www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/view ... 35&start=0

And there's research (2002) indicating that ''a deficit in functional brain organization underlying dyslexia can be reversed after sufficiently intense intervention lasting as little as 2 months'' Two linguistic phonics intervention programmes were used in the research. Simos, P. et al (2002). Dysle...

Debbie Hepplewhite's conference talk is now available. We'll add the others as they appear. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5QT8kEQ_zU&feature=youtu.be Debbie Hepplewhite MBE FRSA opens the UK Reading Reform Foundation Conference 2015. The theme of the conference is, ' From the Rose Review to the N...

Ophthalmic Abnormalities and Reading Impairment http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/05/20/peds.2014-3622.abstract OBJECTIVES: To explore associations between specific learning disorder with impairment in reading (dyslexia) and ophthalmic abnormalities in children aged 7 to 9 yea...

There are grapheme to phoneme charts (Table3. consonants Table4. vowels) in the Letters and Sounds Notes of Guidance p25/26/27

http://www.babcock-education.co.uk/ldp/ ... did=300765

Sound to print: the appliance of science http://literacyblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/sound-to-print-appliance-of-science.html In this post I want to point to a fundamental, logical inconsistency in the approaches used by many specialists in the teaching of literacy here in the United Kingdom, in Aust...