And now imposing phonics is ‘abuse’ – WHAT?

Andrew Davis calls the imposition of synthetic phonics a form of  ‘abuse’ of children. http://news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2014/01/27/synthetic-phonics-imposition-is-39-almost-abuse-39-says-academic.aspx I hereby invite Andrew Davis to visit the Bloomfield Learning Centre where we pick up the broken pieces of ‘whole language’ and ‘mixed methods’ teaching of reading.

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Advice to parents: the three most important factors that help develop literacy

Read this excellent post by Debbie Hepplewhite on MYBABA website.  Near the end, she lists 3 important factors that help children grow up a  good readers and spellers. http://www.mybaba.com/chatter-books-and-phonics-by-debbie-hepplewhite/ Thanks to  Susan Godsland of www.dyslexics.org.uk for flagging this up.

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Phonic denialists arguments debunked with step-by-step logic

Happy New Year all! Here is our first post for the year – a link from Andrew Old’s blog ‘Teaching Battleground’:  a logical step-by-step debunking of phonic ‘denialists’ arguments. Enjoy! http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2014/01/03/phonics-denialism-and-rational-debate/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

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Phonics plus literature enrichment = launches child into the world of reading

“My initial doubts about the decoding method, which caused Charlotte to individually spell out words every time she read, have disappeared now her rate of recognition / repetition has gained momentum, and she reads quite naturally.”  … read more from ‘readitdaddy’ blog. http://readitdaddy.blogspot.co.uk/

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