Dr Paul Thomas, 18 Sept 2022. Pronouncing nonsense words is complete nonsense, and even worse, it is not reading — but it is wasting valuable teaching and learning time that every student deserves, time better spent with meaningful experiences with real words and real texts. Continue reading
Dr Paul Thomas, 19 Jan 2022. This article, written about the situation in the US, is relevant for Australian educators. Note however, that the term ‘systematic’ phonics in the US generally refers to what Australian educators know as ‘synthetic’ phonics. ALL good phonics teaching is systematic, including teaching phonics in meaningful context.
Dr Peter Bowers, 2021. Structured Word Inquiry (SWI) teachers grapheme-phoneme correspondences more explicitly than phonics does: An open letter to Jennifer Buckingham and the reading research community.
Misty Adoniou, Brian Cambourne & Robyn Ewing, The Conversation, 1 Nov 2018. All books are decodable. If they weren’t decodable they would be unreadable. We use rich, authentic texts to support all the decoding skills described in the Australian Curriculum (not just phonics).
EduResearch Matters, 8 Dec 2019. This open letter voices the concerns of over 180 literacy educators on the composition of the “expert” task force created to advise the Australian Government on the teaching of phonics and reading. Two of the three task force members have never taught classes of kids to read and write and have highlighted their bias in prior media releases. Can we trust their advice to the…
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