Part One – The Basis for the Critique Is further national and international perpetuation of the use of the ‘Letters and Sounds: Principles and Practice of High Quality Phonics Six-phase Teaching Programme’ as a programme in reality a current and
***How to Reduce Learning Difficulties – for Teachers and Learners Alike!
Sharing news and evidence-based information – essential for the teaching profession, and invaluable in the public domain Many years ago, when I took over the organisation of the UK Reading Reform Foundation and edited its newsletter, I wanted to get
***DfE and Ofsted – left hand, ‘write’ hand?
I suggest that the Department for Education’s official ‘criteria for assuring high-quality phonic work’ neglects to pay specific attention to handwriting – and Ofsted clearly hasn’t understood the principle of avoiding ‘circuitous routes’! References are made in the DfE’s official