Foundation for Learning and Literacy

April 2, 2021

Everybody’s Selling It- But just what is explicit, systematic phonics instruction?

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’,

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

March 25, 2021

There’s more than one good way to teach kids how to read

January 22, 2020 12.49am AEDT Updated January 22, 2020 3.18am AEDT by Kindel Turner Nash, Leah Panther A growing number of influential journalists, dyslexia advocates, politicians and some local school officials argue

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

March 15, 2021

Time for a good news story.

Enjoy this Success Story from Mornington Park Primary School. It is important to note that the success rested on the fact that the principal and teachers did not get bogged down

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

March 11, 2021

Fact Check on Defining 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

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

March 8, 2021

Everybody’s Selling It- But just what is explicit, systematic phonics instruction?

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

March 7, 2021

Progress in Reading Instruction Requires a Better Understanding of the English Spelling System

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

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

March 7, 2021

Reconsidering the Evidence that Systematic Phonics is More Effective than Alternative Methods of Reading

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

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

March 3, 2021

Review: More Than Words: The Making of the Macquarie Dictionary by Pat Manser (Pan Macmillan)

In The Conversation March 4, 2021 by Roslyn Petelin In 1973 Pat Manser answered an advertisement in the Sydney Morning Herald seeking a research assistant to work on phonetic transcriptions for

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

February 9, 2021

What the Phonics Is the Science of Reading?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lan72cVDRg

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

January 15, 2021

Mem Fox and Reading Aloud

Educators know the value of reading aloud. Click here and sit back and listen to Mem Fox remind us not only of the joys of reading aloud but of the

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