Foundation for Learning and Literacy

June 17, 2021

There is still time to register…

ALEA NATIONAL CONFERENCE Brisbane 7-9 July 2021 - this is an online event Conference Registrations now open The theme of the 2021 online national conference to be held from 7-9 July is: ‘Challenge &

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

June 6, 2021

Are Decodable Readers Making a Difference?

The Educator 3 June 2021 She (Diane Snowball) says there are too many articles written by people who have a vested interest in the sales of decodable books, and as such,

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

May 29, 2021

A Brief History of ‘The Reading Wars’

Australian Association for Research in Education May 26, 2021 Why is reading education so pedagogically confused? The answer to this question lies in history as well as in different understandings about

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

May 13, 2021

New Success Story

Balwyn North Primary report on their Structured Word Inquiry across the school. At Balwyn North Primary School, spelling is explored through word inquiries, where students’ natural curiosity is fostered. Words investigated

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

May 7, 2021

The Sciences of Reading Instruction

May 2021 Vol 78 No 8 Educational Leadership by Rachael Gabriel ASCD membership or payment required for full article When it comes to reading instruction, an "all or nothing" approach is actually unscientific...

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

May 5, 2021

New Fact Check: 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

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

April 26, 2021

From Stephen Krashen

To the editor: Not mentioned in The Age’s endorsement of intensive phonics (“’No student left behind’: phonics push for disadvantaged schools” (April 25) is the consistent research finding that intensive phonics instruction only helps

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Foundation for Learning and Literacy

April 26, 2021

Active Problem Solving in Reading is NOT a Guessing Game

by Jamie R. Lipp, Ph.D. Reading Recovery Community website They are not guessing. They are computing the likelihood of the features that they recognise belonging to the word they have predicted”

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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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