Brian Cambourne, University of Wollongong, April 2021 Brian Cambourne provides a summary of the history of the debates about reading instruction dating from as far back as 1779 and outlines the debates that have occurred, and reoccurred through the 1950’s, 1960’s,...
Michael Rosen, 26 February 2021 In this blog, well-known author Michael Rosen unpacks the question How does Reading for Pleasure produce this seemingly magic effect without direct instruction? To answer that question, Rosen looks at the process of...
Heidi Anne E. Mesmer & Priscilla L. Griffith. (2005) International Reading Association (pp. 366–376) Very experienced K-3 teachers from across the United States, who were members of the ‘International Reading association’, responded to a questionnaire...
This series of podcasts is based on the practical resource edited by Marnee Shay and Rhonda Oliver (2021) Indigenous Education in Australia Learning and Teaching for Deadly Futures’. The podcasts follow the chapters and feature a wide range of presenters and...
Guy Claxton This blog post by Guy Claxton provides a handy ‘crib-sheet’ outlining some areas of contention and misunderstanding around the Sciences of Learning and their impact on teaching practice. Claxton reminds educators that, in reality, the craft of teaching...
Bowers, J. and Bowers, P. This article suggests reading instruction should be informed by building teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge about English spellings, namely the knowledge that spelling is organised by both phonology and morphology as English is a...
Bowers, J. Educational Psychology Review (2020) 32:681-705 In this article the author reviews and critiques experimental studies that have assessed the efficacy of systematic phonics instruction. The article claims there is a need for new alternative approaches...
Edutopia October 30 2017 by Jeffrey D. Wilhelm This article summarises a study by Jeffrey Wilhelm and Michael Smith that finds reading for pleasure has many forms, and each form provides distinct benefits that are outlined in the article. It concludes; “Make no...
Jan Turbill Language Arts 77, (3), 2000 This paper foregrounds the significant place the process of proofreading has in developing a spelling conscience in learners. Most teachers expect students to engage in the process of proofreading but few explicitly teach the...
