Dr Marlynne Grant at researchED 2014
Dr Marlynne Grant is a chartered educational psychologist and a member of the Reading Reform Foundation. She is also the author of the high quality phonics programme, Sound Discovery. Her must-see talk...
View ArticleReading Between the Lines
Recent comments from First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, suggest that national testing might be about to return to Scotland. I do support our forward-thinking curriculum, but I also feel there are bits of...
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Special exam arrangements for dyslexia veering out of control
Special exam arrangements for dyslexia veering out of control Julian Elliott, Durham University The new English Literature GCSE might be contravening the 2010 Equality Act, according to concerns raised...
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Marva Collins, A True American Heroine
Marva Collins did not wait for research, or approval, or even concern herself about being “out of step” with the trends in public education. When I visited her classroom in Chicago it forever...
View ArticleThe Adoption and Spread of Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) in Latin America
The Adoption and Spread of Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) in Latin America: Argentina and Chile mainly, Uruguay, Brazil, Peru and Mexico by Grace Vilar In 2011, I became an independent, full-time...
View ArticleA New Paper by Professors James W. Chapman and William E. Tunmer on Reading...
IFERI is delighted to be able to share with you a brand new paper by Professors James W. Chapman and William E. Tunmer, from the Institute of Education at Massey University, New Zealand. This paper was...
View ArticleThe Reading Reform Foundation Conference, March 2015 *updated*
‘From the Rose Review to the New Curriculum. A growing number of schools successfully teach every child to read; the majority still don’t. Why?’ The theme of the Reading Reform Foundation conference...
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Please Help: Get Ghana Reading with Phonics by Phone
Created by the charity Educators International, Phonics by Phone is an ambitious and innovative project which aims to train teachers in remote parts of Ghana. Using the basic mobile that is already in...
View ArticleWhy we use the Phonics Screening Check in Australia
Students at the school at which I work learn to decode systematically and explicitly. We believe that, given the balance of evidence, a good grounding in phonics, taught systematically, will provide...
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The Dyslexia Debate and a Response by Sir Jim Rose
IFERI is pleased to present a new paper by Sir Jim Rose, which was written as a response to Professor Julian Elliott’s recent presentation at Macquarie University, Australia. Please click here to watch...
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When Phonics Falls on Deaf Ears by Diane Philipson
I began teaching in NSW, Australia, in 1964 and always used phonics, though at that time systematic synthetic phonics had not been thought of. In those days, it seemed that children simply learnt to...
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Tackling Inequality Through Teaching: A Letter to the Prime Minister by Dr...
We are delighted to be able to post this letter from Dr Marlynne Grant, to the Prime Minister, on the subject of tackling inequality through education. The Rt Hon Theresa May MP Prime Minister 10...
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“The future doesn’t have to be like the past” by Sir Jim Rose
While England may not top PISA’s international league tables, we almost certainly surpass our international counterparts in the amount and pace of educational reform that governments of all stripes...
View ArticleThe Optima Reading Programme by Dr Jonathan Solity: Does it Provide Optimal...
Recently Dr Jonathan Solity reported on his critical analysis of the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check.1 This has thrown a spotlight on his own programme for teaching reading, which was developed first as...
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A Voice Among the Nations by Jessica Stanley
When I was about 9 years old, a man told me that I would grow up to be “a voice among the nations.” You could accurately call that man a prophet because sure enough, as I graduated university with a...
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Reading Failure? Not On My Watch! by Jocelyn Seamer
Books have always been a part of my life. Growing up, our house contained bookshelves bursting at the seams with volumes. A wide range of topics were represented; the classics, light romance novels,...
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‘War and Peace in Reading – Time for a Truce?’ by Sir Jim Rose
Some children we teach imprint indelible memories. One such was Raymond. He was a ‘blitz of a boy’ fashioned in the mould of Charles Causley’s, ‘Timothy Winters’. For him, school was not always a...
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Examining the evidence on the effectiveness of synthetic phonics teaching:...
Examining the evidence on the effectiveness of synthetic phonics teaching: the Ehri et al (2001) and C.Torgerson et al (2006) meta-analyses Rhona Johnston, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, University...
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