The following was a recent article in the Australian publication The Conversation : https://theconversation.com/what-are-decodable-readers-and-do-they-work-106067?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitterbutton A response was signed by 96 people, including a few from the UK. Greg Ashman has given a link...

I'm adding these links here because of the Australian connection - I'll let them speak for themselves:

https://theconversation.com/what-are-de ... tterbutton

pamelasnow.blogspot.com

Jenny C.

An argument commonly used against the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check (e.g. in the recent survey conducted by Clark and Glazzard) is that good readers are disadvantaged because they are so used to reading for meaning that they read the non-words as real words. This argument is challenged by Prof. Ann...

In my earlier post on the Clark-Glazzard survey I didn’t mention the following comment from one respondent: ‘Our children who were reading for meaning would try to make sense of the nonsense word on the test and therefore failed the test’. This sort of complaint has been quite common, but I found no...

This has now appeared: https://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/news/1165809/focus-on-phonics-criticised-in-new-survey?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter If the Phonics Screening Check causes stress for children, surely the fault lies with the way that teachers are administering it rather tha...

These results have just been announced:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... gland-2018

Jenny C.

A new article which is relevant:

https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/foc ... ssion=true

Jenny C.

This article has now appeared:

https://amp.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/foc ... ssion=true

Jenny C.

Someone has now given the following link on Twitter:

http://howtoteachreading.org.uk/the-pho ... -in-irony/

The piece is a real tour de force - both funny and very hard-hitting.

Jenny C.

I hope this may be of interest

https://rrf.org.uk/2018/07/30/phonics-d ... enny-chew/

Jenny C.

For those not on Twitter, dozens of Twitter comments can be seen here:

https://twitter.com/hashtag/phonicsdeba ... =refgoogle

Jenny C.

This link should work:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_cont ... nUNsYfrxjY

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Oh dear - I wanted to watch the debate again but am now getting the message that the video has been removed by the user. I'll see if I can find another route to it.

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This debate took place today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRE2OKL6EtY&app=desktop The preliminaries go on for about 45 minutes before the debate itself starts. The three speaking in favour of systematic synthetic phonics do an excellent job. I think the first questioner from the floor is right t...

Thanks for the Share extracts, maizie - he's always very good value. There’s also this 1990 article by Wimmer and Hummer: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/applied-psycholinguisticsarticle/how-germanspeaking-first-graders-read-and-spell-doubts-on-the-importance-of-the-logographic-stage/49B5D90...