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Fact Check on Defining Effective Reading Continued and often heated debates about how teachers and parents can best help young children learn to read are closely related to different definitions of, and understandings about, what effective reading is. This Fact Check...
Beryl Exley, ALEA Practically Primary, June 2020 Intelligent reading teachers know that learning to read is a journey, from the place where the child first experiences language and starts to make sense of sounds and their written representations whilst being nurtured...
Devonshire, V; Morris, P; Fluck, M. University of Portsmouth, UK Learning and Instruction 25 (2013) 85-94 The authors explain that English has a deep or opaque orthography since only 56% of its words can be predicted by phonological rules. Highly transparent languages...
Margaret M. Clark OBE Education Journal No.352 16.10.18 This article provides a critique of the evidence used to claim the effectiveness of the Phonics Screening Check implemented in the UK. Clark cites academics who make it clear that while there is a place for...
David Hornsby 2017 This two-page paper informs teachers, principals and parents about some of the issues regarding the Year 1 phonics check. The author’s many years of classroom experience, and his publications, demonstrate that he is “pro-phonics”. However, he...
Clark, M. In this short paper, Clark summarises key points from her own research, and the work of many other researchers over several decades. Most researchers support the belief that there is a benefit from the inclusion of phonics with the early instruction in...
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