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Occasional posts, mostly on how to teach reading and spelling.

  • Short vowels? Long vowels? Are they?
  • The Practice Gap – how to narrow the reading gap
  • Are SEN children different?
  • Decodables
  • ‘Myths and Deception’, the Australian Phonics Screening Check: a response to Dr Paul Gardner

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  • Short vowels? Long vowels? Are they?
  • The Practice Gap – how to narrow the reading gap
  • Are SEN children different?
  • Decodables
  • The Dos and Don’ts of Teaching Spelling
  • Is Phonics a ‘Method’ for Teaching Reading?
  • Guessing: why it is not an effective ‘reading strategy’
  • Sight Words
  • ‘Myths and Deception’, the Australian Phonics Screening Check: a response to Dr Paul Gardner
  • The ‘Phonics Debate’: a lesson in irony.
  • Plomin’s Blueprint and the Phonics Screening Check
  • The Toxic “Dyslexia Debate”

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