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Teaching Reading:
You can order a free, paper copy of the Rose Report, online (register first):
http://publications.teachernet.gov.uk/default.aspx?
PageFunction=productdetails&PageMode=publications&ProductId=DFES-0201-2006&
www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2103400,00.html
Some Sound Reading Advice: With one in five 11-year-olds unable to read properly, Ruth Miskin offers
advice on teaching to concerned parents
www.ruthmiskinliteracy.com/pdf/comprehendingdecoding.pdf
Comprehending Decoding.
http://www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/spring_sum98/cunningham.pdf
Why learning to read early is so important
www.uoregon.edu/~bgrossen/pubs/cdp.htm
Developmentally Appropriate Practice.
http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/v4n8.html
Developmentalism.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/3390946.html
Romancing the Child.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,746473,00.html
Lost for Wurds
www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/spring2003/AE_SPRNG.pdf
Reading Comprehension Requires Knowledge.
www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/pspi/pdf/pspi22.pdf
How Psychological Science Informs the Teaching of Reading. For information on eye-movements in reading, see p46-48
www.sntp.net/education/The_Reading_Wars.htm
The Reading Wars.
www.minettemarrin.com/minettemarrin/1998/12/
Scroll down to: December 17. The teachers' plot to make our children into failures.
www.minettemarrin.com/minettemarrin/2002/12/why_do_they_mak.html
Why do they make teaching reading harder than ABC?
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2088-1641343,00.html
Spelling out why black schoolboys fail
www.nrrf.org/87_med_mal.htm
Medical Malpractice and its Reading Instruction Analogy.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,6903,1418481,00.html
'When words fail them: Shockingly, a quarter of our children leave primary school illiterate. So why ignore the solution?'
www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-958696,00.html
The secret life of a French schoolteacher. France.
www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1268101,00.html
Village teacher returns to sums and grammar France
www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CAAD6.htm
A French Lesson.
www.lire-ecrire.org/
Le site de l'enseignement de la lecture et de l'écriture. France.
www.donpotter.net/PDF/Illiteracy%20in%20America.pdf
Illiteracy in America - Free, online book.
www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/index.htm
Interviews with some of America's finest teachers, literacy institution leaders, brain scientists, and others
involved with the teaching of reading.
www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/pspi/reading.pdf
How should reading be taught?
http://mams.rmit.edu.au/i1n9s3d6xzi5.rtf
Literacy quotes compiled by Kerry Hempenstall.
www.sedl.org/reading/topics/jabberwocky.pdf
Decoding and the Jabberwocky's song.
Diane McGuinness comments on the review of the Research Literature on the use of Phonics in the
Teaching of Reading and Spelling, by Brooks, Torgerson and Hall
www.dfes.gov.uk/research/data/uploadfiles/RR711_.pdf
http://rrf.org.uk/newsletter.php?n_ID=33
Jennifer Chew discusses teaching phonemic awareness with letters
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/mmousta/Research_on_Phonemic_Awareness_Training.htm
Synthetic Phonics:
www.act-ed.co.uk/sp/introduction.html
2-hour DVD, Understanding Synthetic Phonics. Teacher Training Resource. ''Debbie Hepplewhite gives a
detailed breakdown of synthetic phonics, the alphabetic code (simple and complex) how to blend
letter sounds, phonemic awareness, and how to teach synthetic phonics in the classroom.''
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primaryframeworks/foundation/early/simple/
Simple view of reading
;www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/features/primary/pri_fwk_corepapers/pri_fwk_corepapers_0385506.pdf
Primary Framework Core Position Papers
www.teachingtimes.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=116&Itemid=56
Jenny Chew discusses the core papers.
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/rosereview/report.pdf
Rose Review: Final Report
http://RoseReportExtracts.notlong.com
Extracts from the Rose Review.
http://rrf.org.uk/newsletter.php?n_ID=34
Six activities that make no difference whatsoever to reading and spelling success, and two activities that are actually related to worse reading and spelling achievement.
www.syntheticphonics.com/pdf%20files/The%20Alphabetic%20Code.pdf
Debbie Hepplewhite's comprehensive Alphabet Code chart (downloadable).
www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=105&ArticleID=995291
This article includes a list of the Jolly Phonics 'sound actions'.
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/poems/fpoem.shtml
'Sound' poems with animation, audio and activities.
www.syntheticphonics.com/
The best website for information on Synthetic Phonics.
www.syntheticphonics.com/scroll.pdf
Debbie Hepplewhite's simple and complex alphabetic codes overview.
www.syntheticphonics.com/pdf%20files/Criteria%20for%20evaluating%20a%20phonics%20programme.pdf
Criteria for evaluating a phonics programme -useful not just for parents and school staff but for programme developers too!
www.syntheticphonics.com/pdf%20files/parentsguidanceforreading.pdf
Parents' guidance for reading.
http://rrf.org.uk/newsletter.php?n_ID=95
A prototype for teaching the English Alphabet Code by Professor Diane McGuinness.
www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?t=2437
Decoding phonemes is best method.
http://eddie.idx.com.au/2006/88phonics.html
Sound sense. How learning to love synthetic phonics could revolutionise teachers’ working lives — to say
nothing of the children’s!''
www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?t=1306
Synthetic Phonics: The Scientific Research Evidence.
www.scotland.gov.uk/library5/education/ins17-00.asp
Watson and Johnston: A Seven Year Study of the Effects of Synthetic Phonics Teaching on Reading and Spelling Attainment
http://rrf.org.uk/newsletter.php?n_ID=158
Phonics: The Holy Grail of Reading. Jenny Chew explains the relationship between Decoding and Comprehension.
www.promethean.fsnet.co.uk/synthetic.htm
What every teacher and parent should know about synthetic phonics.
www.donpotter.net/ed.htm
Free, phonic materials, many of historic interest.
www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?t=1802
Comprehension and decoding.
www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/spring_sum98/moats.pdf
Teaching Decoding
http://projectpro.com/ICR/Phonics/Reading.htm
How Phonics helps your Child to Read
www.sedl.org/reading/framework/research.html
Check all the research
http://rrf.org.uk/newsletter.php?n_ID=117
Illiterate boys: The new international phenomenon
www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?t=120
The regularity of our written language.
www.nifl.gov/partnershipforreading/publications/html/stanovich
Using research and reason in education.
www.earlyreadingplayschool.com.au/OurStrategy/YSE/os-yse-helendoron.htm
Language development 0-3 years.
www.nrrf.org/
National Right to Read Foundation. America.
www.rmit.edu.au/staff/kerry_hempenstall
Kerry Hempenstall's website. Australia.
www.educationnews.org/General_Commentaries/war-of-the-words-the-age-good.htm
War of the Words. Australia
http://leo.oise.utoronto.ca/~kstanovich/reading.html#
Keith Stanovich's website. Canada.
Analytic phonics and ‘mixed methods’:
www.syntheticphonics.com/pdf%20files/Synthetic%20&%20Analytic%20Phonics%20Teaching%20Principles.pdf
What's the difference between synthetic and analytic phonics?
www.edexcellence.net/library/wholelang/moats.html
The illusion of 'balanced' reading instruction.
www.nrrf.org/essay_We_Do_Teach_Phonics.html
What to do when you're told ' We do teach phonics'.
http://rrf.org.uk/newsletter.php?n_ID=79
Phonics and Book Bands.
www.coreknowledge.org/CK/about/CommonKnowledge/v19I_2006/v19_I_2006_greeneggs.htm
Case for decodable text.
www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?t=1836
Goswami and the onset-rime theory
www.sitella.co.uk/sideline/diversions/rwt/
Victorian 'primer' Reading Without Tears.
www.educationnews.org/writers/kerry/abracadrabra-phonics-balanced.htm
Abracadrabra phonics
Whole language:
http://mams.rmit.edu.au/m1bqt3d6xzi5.rtf
What whole language really implies -quotes compiled by Kerry Hempenstall.
www.nychold.com/talk-stotsky-051002.doc
Why Reading Teachers Are Not Trained to Use a Research-Based Pedagogy:
www.freedomparty.org/issupapr/wholmain.htm
Just say 'Know' to Whole Language.
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/wlquotes.html
Whole Language quotes examined.
http://my.execpc.com/~presswis/phonics.html
Learning To Read and Whole Language Ideology
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/groff.html
Groff's Essays: Antidotes to Infectious Whole Language Twaddle
www.illinoisloop.org/anon_thankyouwl.html
A personal essay: Thank you Whole Language
www.home-school.com/Articles/BlumenfeldDyslexia.html
Dyslexia: Man-Made Disease
www.pisd.org/academic/reading.htm
Reading.
http://capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4151
The Phonics vs. "Whole Language" Controversy
www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/whole.1.html
Blackboard Bungle.1.
www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content/whole.2.html
Blackboard Bungle 2.
www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j17/fonicsfobia.php
PhonicsPhobia
www.tlc.li/articles/other_tenets_of_whole-language.htm
Other Tenets of Whole-Language.
www.balancedreading.com/3cue-adams.html
An expose of the three-cueing system ('Searchlights' UK): Marilyn Jager Adams
www.ednews.org/articles/4084/1/The-three-cueing-model--Down-for-the-count/Page1.html
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/class/Psy338K/Gough/Chapter5/three-cueing-system.html
http://tortoise.oise.utoronto.ca/~kstanovich/pdfs/reading/RRQ86.pdf
Stanovich: Matthew Effects in Reading.
www.rrf.org.uk/messageforum/viewtopic.php?t=543
Burkard's 'Schools of Bricklaying' :-)
www.nrrf.org/satire_golf.html
Whole language takes on golf :-)
www.nrrf.org/satire_WL_at_Fork.html
Whole language at the Fork in the Road :-)
What's Wrong with Reading Recovery:
www.nrrf.org/essay_ReadRec_10.html
www.uoregon.edu/~bgrossen/rr.htm
www.educationation.org/readingrecoveryresearch.htm
www.ednews.org/articles/2484/1/EVIDENCE--BASED-RESEARCH-ON-READING-RECOVERY/Page1.html
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/30/ED20575.DTL
www.educationreport.org/pubs/mer/article.asp?ID=3430
http://masseynews.massey.ac.nz/1999/press_releases/27-10-99.htm
http://www.ldanh.org/docs/Reading%20Recovery.pdf
www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/03/1070351649489.html
http://readingrecoverybalancedliteracy.blogspot.com/ :-)
http://LightfootRR.notlong.com
www.ioe.ac.uk/schools/ecpe/readingrecovery/pages/newsletter_running_record_2004.pdf
see article: ''Sound it out''.
www.ioe.ac.uk/schools/ecpe/readingrecovery/pages/newsletter_running_record_%2005.pdf
see article: Phonics in Reading Recovery
SEN, SpLD and Assessment:
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/newsletter/archives/coping.pdf
Coping with language delay
www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifeandstyle/articles/12011039?source=Evening%20Standard
The dyspraxia myth.
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/newsletter/archives/prescription.pdf
ADD or can't read?
www.sntp.net/ritalin/ritalin.htm
Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Ritalin,
www.speechteach.co.uk
FREE downloads - games and activities to help with speech problems.
www.talkingpoint.org.uk/
Speech, language and communication difficulties in children.
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/newsletter/archives/listen.pdf
Why Johnny won't pay attention.
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/newsletter/archives/boys.pdf
Boys' hearing.
www.cuedspeech.co.uk/
Literacy is possible for even the profoundly deaf by making the sounds of speech visible-see Cued Speech Information Sheet no.11.
www.donpotter.net/PDF/Miscue%20Analysis.pdf
Miscue Analysis: training normal children to read like defective children
www.donpotter.net/PDF/Solomon%20or%20Salami.pdf
Solomon or Salami?
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/newsletter/archives/blame.pdf
Dr. Galen Alessi, Professor of Psychology at Western Michigan University, conducted a fascinating study on school psychologists.
http://archive.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/2005/9/8/205640.html
Reading between the lines
www.cps.org.uk/historiccatalogue/
download in Education section: What are Special Educational Needs? by John Marks.
Teenagers:
www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/spring_sum98/greene.pdf
Another Chance: Using synthetic phonics with older students
www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/fall04/latebloomers.htm
Waiting Rarely Works.
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/newsletter/archives/words.pdf
Hempenstall -Older students' reading problems
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=000CB565-F330-11BE-AD0683414B7F0000
The Self-Esteem Myth.
www.spiked-online.com/Printable/0000000CA647.htm
Can't read, won't read
Dyslexia:
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/newsletter/archives/dreaded.pdf
The Dreaded Dyslexia: It's caused by a teaching disability not a learning disability.
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/newsletter/archives/dyslexia.pdf
Dyslexia or dysteachia?
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/newsletter/archives/mythabilities.pdf
Learning mythabilities.
www.donpotter.net/PDF/Miller-Blumenfeld_Dyslexia_Article.pdf
Can dyslexia be artificially induced?
http://rrf.org.uk/newsletter.php?n_ID=117
Illiterate boys: The new international phenomenon
www.nrrf.org/29_labeled_dyslexic.html
When a child is labelled dyslexic.
http://homeparents.about.com/library/weekly/uc_lang4.htm
Is the shoe perhaps on the wrong foot?
www.xs4all.nl/~pmms/Seymour_Aro_Erskine.pdf
Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies
www.nrdc.org.uk/uploads/documents/doc_166.pdf
Developmental dyslexia in adults: a research review
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3809/is_200301/ai_n9226146
'New' definition of Dyslexia
http://leo.oise.utoronto.ca/~kstanovich/pdfs/reading/RRQ86.pdf
Stanovich: Matthew Effects in Reading.
www.channel4.com/news/microsites/D/dyslexia_myth/
Prof. Elliott and 'The Myth of Dyslexia''
www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2007/01/15/hdyslexia15.xml&page=1
Dyslexia: a big, expensive myth.
Writing and spelling:
www.scribblers.co.uk/cgi/gridlines.pl
Handwriting paper to print.
www.first-school.ws/theme/printables/writing-paper/handwriting.htm
Choice of handwriting paper to print.
www.senteacher.org/wk/hands1.php
Patterns to help pre-schoolers with pencil control.
www.aei.org/news/filter.,newsID.13071/news_detail.asp
'The Write Stuff' by Christina Hoff Sommers, on Boys and Handwriting.
http://desktoppub.about.com/library/fonts/hs/uc_boringboring.htm
Free 'Boring Boring' font to download.
www.k-type.com/
Free, easy-to-read, 'Lexia' font down-load
www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j19/handwriting.php
Handwriting, and its relationship to spelling.
www.primaryideas.co.uk/literacy/punctuation.doc
Ros Wilson's 'VCOP' Pyramid.
www.myhomelibrary.org
Free book plates by famous illustrators, to print out and use to personalize books.
www.krysstal.com/writing.html
The history, development and evolution of the world's writing systems
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith2003/lecturer.shtml
Synkinesia
http://rrf.org.uk/newsletter.php?n_ID=52
Tom Burkard: Invented spellings
www.nationalliteracytrust.org.uk/pubs/ampaw-farr.html
Spelling Language.
www.nrrf.org/42_invented_spelling.html
A Critique of Invented Spelling
www.sntp.net/education/illiteracy.htm
The new illiteracy -invented spelling.
www.spellingsociety.org
This society campaigns for the simplification of English spelling
www.omniglot.com
A guide to writing systems.
www.jaars.org/museum/alphabet/index.htm
JAARS Alphabet Museum.
www.exploratorium.edu/exploring/language
Where do languages come from?
Learning styles and multiple intelligences:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/comment/story/0,,1885799,00.html
''Learning styles are cobblers'', says Prof. John White,
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,,1827622,00.html
Wrongly Labelled.
www.njsba.org/members_only/publications/school_leader/Nov-Dec-2000/ed_Nov_Dec_00.html Learning Styles? Not Likely!
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1495514,00.html
The government espouses the theory of learning styles with scant regard to the evidence, says Phil Revell
www.lsda.org.uk/files/PDF/1543.pdf
UK research warns against stereotyping people on the basis of their learning styles
http://my.execpc.com/~presswis/tarver.html
Reading instruction and learning styles -should they be matched?
www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/fall99/DiffStrokes.pdf
A critique of learning styles
www.aft.org/pubs-reports/american_educator/issues/summer2005/cogsci.htm
Do Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Learners Need Visual, Auditory, and Kinesthetic Instruction?
www.nrrf.org/003_auditory_vs_visual.html
Auditory Versus Visual Styles of Learning to Read: A False Dichotomy
www.runet.edu/~thompson/obias.html
Parents of nasal learners demand odor-based curricula :-)
www.educationnews.org/writers/kerry/learning_styles_freud.htm
Freud's Seminal Contribution to Learning Styles :-)
http://www.hoover.org/publications/ednext/3261311.html
MI critique: Reframing the Mind
www.igs.net/~cmorris/critiques.html
Critiques of MI Theory.
www.illinoisloop.org/mi.html
www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ockham/stories/s922638.htm
Professor of Psychology Margot Prior is troubled about the various treatments offered, particularly when
it affects the lives of children who are too young to make real choices for themselves about what should happen to them.
http://people.uncw.edu/kozloffm/fads.html
Fad, Fraud, and Folly in Education
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article1329353.ece
'Test teaching ideas before imposing them on children'.
Resources:
Spelling –
www.candocubes.com/synthetic-phonics-products.php
Sets of tactile, hardwood cubes, each cube being laser engraved with six letters, or combination of letters,
representing different sounds of speech. Sets include a DVD for pronunciation guidance, word charts and an instruction book.
www.sounds-write.co.uk/documents/spelling_theory_and_lexicon.pdf
A Lexicon of English spellings
www.promethean.fsnet.co.uk
The Promethean Trust. Spelling programme 'Apples and Pears'
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/babl.htm
BABL Word Game - word analysis and Latin and Greek Vocabulary.
www.spellzone.com/
Online, interactive English spelling course for older students and adults.
www.syntheticphonics.com/word%20documents/words%20and%20sentences%20for%20syntheticphonics.doc
Debbie Hepplewhite's words and sentences for copying or dictation to practice sound patterns.
www.bbc.co.uk/hardspell/word4.pdf
Download the BBC's ''Hard Spell'' list of words.
www.grammarcard.com/SpellingV3.50.pdf
Commonly misspelled words.
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/keystage3/downloads/en_y7bank_c004701spelling.pdf
DfES Year 7. spelling bank.
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/849451/nls_y2y3plan_spell049303.pdf
DfES Spelling programme Yrs 2/3
www.ase.org.uk/sen/pdf/words/wordbanks/wordlist.pdf
Word bank for secondary stage science.
Lesson plans -
www.ltscotland.org.uk/5to14/specialfocus/images/naissuesph1_tcm4-122363.pdf
This leaflet on Synthetic Phonics includes a suggested format for each simple/basic code lesson.
www.tes.co.uk/resources/Resource.aspx?resourceId=3287
Charliemouse's week-by-week, synthetic phonics teaching plan, based on Jolly Phonics -includes a short
period of phonological awareness work at the beginning which you may prefer to leave out.
Phonic Games -
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/948809/nls_phonics028004games.pdf
Phonic games from the DfES
www.dorbooks.com/tips.html
Dolores Hiskes suggests some reading games.
www.montessorimaterials.org/Language/advancedcodecards[1].doc
Advanced code cards to print out (N.B. a few of the cards have American-English pronunciation spelling)
www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/
Several 'phoneme' games to download here, including 'Sound Buttons'
Video clips -
BBC Newsnight videos show how Ruth Miskin's synthetic phonic programme was used to 'turn around' reading
at Britannia Village primary school.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4700537.stm
Final Report (Newsnight 17/07/06) The school has moved from the bottom to the top of the school league tables in just two years!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolavconsole/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_5180000/newsid_5189600/bb_rm_5189694.stm
Debbie Hepplewhite, Ruth Miskin, Dr Dominic Wyse and Katy Kowalska
discuss synthetic phonics:
www.teachers.tv/strandProgramme.do?strandId=59957&transmissionProgrammeId=275080
http://JPschool.notlong.com
This Teachers' TV programme focuses on Brooklands School’s teaching of Jolly Phonics, which has lead to
Ofsted commending its pupils for achieving outstanding progress in English.
www.midsomernorton.bathnes.sch.uk/phonics.htm
Video clips of children doing the Jolly Phonics sounds and actions
Synthetic Phonic programmes –
Step by Step. Mona McNee. Pub. Galore Park.
www.galorepark.co.uk/details/1902984838.html
Mona McNee's programme is also available FREE online:
www.catphonics.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Fast Phonics First. Johnston/Watson. Pub. Heinemann. Interactive CD format
www.fastphonicsfirst.co.uk
Jolly learning Ltd. Jolly Phonics for children aged 2-7.
www.jollylearning.co.uk
http://jollylearning.co.uk/Introduction_Web_2005.pdf
Download the Jolly Phonics guide -practical advice for parents and teachers.
http://members5.boardhost.com/jollylearning/msg/15.html
The Steps for Teaching Reading with Jolly Phonics
Jolly Phonics gave my twins a sound start: School flashcards were not the answer, so Liz Lightfoot tried a spell of home teaching
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/12/nskool112.xml
Sound Discovery.
www.ridgehillpublishing.com
Wave 3 Intervention materials:
www.ridgehillpublishing.com/Wave%203.htm
www.markittelevision.com/
produce a set of four DVD discs as a training resource, covering a comprehensive range of lessons based on
the Sound Discovery method of teaching synthetic phonics.
Sound Foundations.
www.promethean.fsnet.co.uk/
for information on the reading programme 'Dancing Bears'
The Sound Reading System. A linguistic phonic, REMEDIAL,tutoring programme based on the work of
Professor Diane McGuinness and adapted, with her permission, by Fiona Nevola
The Sound Reading System in action
Contact fiona.nevola@virgin.net for information.
Sounds~Write:
www.sounds-write.co.uk/default.asp
Read Write Inc.
www.oup.com/oxed/primary/literacy/readwriteinc/
Ruth Miskin's scripted, synthetic phonic programme for schools: Foundation->Y4 .
Fresh Start:
www.oup.com/oxed/primary/literacy/readwriteinc3/
'Catch-up' reading, writing, spelling and grammar activities for children in year 5 upwards.
Stairway to Reading: FREE, online, remedial tutoring programme (Canadian)
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/stairway.html
A one-on-one remedial reading program for students of any age who have already received some reading
instruction but who are struggling with reading. Caution UK users: there are some N. American accent/sound differences.
www.thatreadingthing.com
Provides training in a basic REMEDIAL, linguistic phonic programme for older children, teenagers and adults or,
without training, as a book and CD package.
'The Basics' power point: www.aowm73.dsl.pipex.com/dyslexics/thebasics.pdf
Which Phonics? Ltd.
www.whichphonics.co.uk/
Jaz Ampaw-Farr is a teacher and trainer who puts on synthetic phonic training days and conferences for teachers.
Contact her at: info@whichphonics.co.uk
www.PhonicsInternational.com
The website of Debbie Hepplewhite's International Online Synthetic Phonics Programme
America:
www.abcdrp.com/
The ABeCeDarian linguistic phonic programme. Research-based, explicit, comprehensive, multi-sensory
decoding and spelling programme.
France:
www.leolea.org/
Leo et Lea. French synthetic phonic programme.
www.jollylearning.co.uk
Le manuel phonique. For teaching French reading, writing and spelling. In the same format as The Phonics Handbook
New Zealand:
www.astepatatime.co.nz/
A Step at a Time. Synthetic phonic programme based on Mona McNee's Step by Step.
Australia:
Training in Jolly Phonics is available in Australia
www.jollydiscoveries.com/
Training in Sounds~Write is available in Australia
http://sounds-write.co.uk/australia.asp
Reading Resources -
www.cleverspellgames.co.uk
Pack of phonic games which follow the Sound Reading System programme structure, suitable for one-to-one or group teaching.
My First Phonics Board Book. Pub. Dorling Kindersley. For ages 0-5. Picture book, covers all the sounds - alternative
to the usual 'alphabet' books. View pages from the book online here:
http://uk.dk.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,11_1405303573,00.html
www.toe-by-toe.co.uk
Book by Keda Cowling. Highly structured manual to teach reading. Designed to be used by non-professionals.
http://homepages.tesco.net/~chris.reall/phrantic/phrantic%20phonics.htm
Dr. Chris Reall's 'Phrantic Phonics' website has some good, free resources.
www.syntheticphonics.com/resources.htm
Debbie Hepplewhite's website has a page full of wonderful FREE resources. She is an inspirational,
synthetic phonics teacher and trainer who puts on training days and presentations for teachers.
DVD: ‘An Introduction to Synthetic Phonics' featuring Debbie Hepplewhite and Professor Diane McGuinness.
Aimed at ‘raising awareness’ about the dangers of guessing words through multi-cueing and describing the
first steps of the synthetic phonics teaching principles for reading and spelling -for ordering details go to:
www.phonicsproducts.com/
www.rrf.org.uk/Origami%20how%20to%20make.htm
Blend, Spell and Write' origami books: make your own or order a photocopiable master set from RRF.
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/longvow/index.shtml
BBC's 'Words and Pictures' on-line activities.
www.bigbrownbear.co.uk/index.htm
Interactive, phonics software for KS1/2 -free, online demo versions
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/63305/nls_pips012601pcm.pdf
DfES phonics photocopy masters, includes phoneme flashcards and 'silly questions'.
www.standards.dfes.gov.uk/primary/publications/literacy/948809/nls_phonics028004phonemes.pdf
Phoneme spotter stories
Stories to listen to:
www.bbc.co.uk/bbc7/bigtoe/littletoe/
BBC7 on DAB digital radio -an hour of stories for children every day of the week (also on Internet broadband using
RealPlayer, and digital TV)
Useful websites:
www.tes.co.uk/staffroom/
Join the discussions in the TES forums.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/default.stm
UK Education news from the BBC.
http://education.guardian.co.uk/
The Guardian Education website
www.cre.org.uk/
Campaign for Real Education. UK.
www.societyforqualityeducation.org/
Society for Quality Education. Ontario Canada.
http://edwatch.blogspot.com/
Education Watch: Oz Blog. Australia.
www.educationallycorrect.com/
Parents for Evidence Based Education. America.
www.illinoisloop.org/index.html
Illinois Loop: 'must read' content and links. America
http://michel.delord.free.fr/#Nouveau%20/%20New
Michel Delord France.
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