Learning and Literacy Touchstones The Foundation for Learning and Literacy has developed 12 Touchstones that underpin our work and advocacy and are supported by rigourous research, and stories of classroom success. The starting point for the Touchstones was the Alice...
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Teaching phonics ‘first’ is not new
We need to focus on meeting the needs of individual children in helping them learn to read rather than teaching ‘a method of reading’ (Reid, 2006, p.16). No one method can be the ‘right’ method for all children – quality teachers will draw on a diverse range of strategies and approaches to teach to the diverse needs of the children in their classrooms.
A Note About Fact Checks
The Foundation Committee has developed the following set of principles to help you evaluate information about learning and literacy.
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 discusses two approaches to defining effective reading and argues that it is imperative to adopt a definition of reading that privileges meaning-making.
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