Certainly ‘won’ in California - that’s why so few of their children can read…

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Susan Godsland Pamela Snow The Reading Ape Thanks, Susan. The latest white flag to the challenge of teaching children to read and spell. If the government accept the report, struggling readers will be set back further 😟

‘Flexibility for schools to use other methods than systematic synthetic phonics to teach reading and spelling…’ er…guessing?

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Happy to be presenting to professionals who can and do have such a big impact on children’s learning. Speech pathologists are a valuable resource for schools and families.

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New Zealand has finally dumped Reading Recovery because it “ignored the evidence about the science of how … children best learn to read.” This new paper tracks its rise and demise. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Inspiring talk from Naveen Rizvi last night at Civitas think tank . Finally got to meet Adam Boxer . Keeping the faith.

This looks really excellent.

The Reading Ape Great advice! But how do teachers approach spelling/writing? There is little or no advice on whether orientation matters. Sound to print or print-to-sound? Sound to print builds on children's spoken language and offers a coherent, conceptual framework for understanding how the

"Writing is not simple, and the “Simple View of Writing” that has been adopted does not do justice to the complexity of process." Megan Dixon gives her view on the new primary writing framework tes.com/magazine/teach…

Somewhat disingenuous perhaps to criticise the lack of academic input with both Steve Graham and Debra Myhill contributing. Arguably the biggest academic beasts in the field.

The Reading Ape Not those teachers, not those academics, not that research. Just once, it would be nice to see some say,'this might be useful to those trying to do their best in the classroom'