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Emmitt, M; Hornsby, D. and Wilson, L. Published by ALEA in 2006 Revised in 2013 This brief (22-page) article makes a strong case that children best learn to read when teachers help them engage with meaningful and engaging texts rather than with commercial programs....
Fact Check on What Makes for Systematic Teaching of Phonics Some recent public commentary around learning to read and write is misleading and false. One such claim is that all students should receive the same synthetic phonics program in the same sequence and in the...
Fact Check on Clarifying a Balanced Literacy Approach Recently in press articles, some commentators have provided a misleading view of what many systems, schools and educators know as a 'balanced literacy approach' claiming it does not attend adequately to phonics...
Misty Adoniou, Brian Cambourne and Robyn Ewing The Conversation Nov 12 2018 Money for books must surely be a good thing. But what exactly is a “decodable reader”? After all, surely all books are decodable. If they weren’t decodable they would be unreadable. Link:...
Misty Adoniou The Conversation; September 2017. This article was as the Australian Coalition Government was canvassing the introduction of a phonics screening assessment for all year 1 children in Australia. Adoniou tests the claims that the then Minister for...
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