Thank you very much Debbie. It is a tricky one, and I suspect, no quick way!

Has anyone come across any literature on this? I have in mind a couple of students I have at present, both of whom make very frequent transcribing errors, eg one Y 8 student copying a sentence with 'crystal' rewrote it as 'cristle'. Such students also often fail to spot their copying errors when che...

I enjoyed the conference immensely, from Debbie's rousing beginning talk, to Nick Gibb's at the end, unusual to hear a politician who seemed to know what he was talking about. He even knows the right kind of questions to ask 6 year olds! I particularly liked that i was able to listen to all the spea...

I was under the impression that Jonathan Solity was a 'precision teaching' proponent. Maybe the 'psychometric testing' complained about was the essence of precision teaching ie using the standard celeration charts? I can imagine untrained teachers having difficulty with this on a large scale. I wnis...

Australia did rather well, yet only last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics told us
that 50% of adult Tasmanians were functionally illiterate and innumerate. What is the average statistically compromised person to make of these sorts of headlines?

Both of the above articles show people working with children, or influential in policy making, who seem to have not a skerrick of common sense.

50 percent leave within 5 years according to this blog. He also gives his reference for the fact.

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Interesting blog/review about a book of this title by Daisy Christodoulou. Isn't she a member of a new curriculum reform company discussed a few weeks ago?



http://pragmaticreform.wordpress.com/20 ... ing-ideas/

I tried this with my five year old niece, and it is quite good. I could not figure out getting the sound to work. I have to say, and call me old fashioned, but pencil and paper, or white board and pen, is so much more satisfying, and easier.i suppose novelty has got value though.

Thanks for the clarification Kiki. In my early teaching days in ILEA, my school staggered the entry into Reception. depending on birthday. It meant that some children had three full years in the 'infants' before they moved on to the juniors, whilst others might have a bare two years. I once had sist...

Didn't the old 11+ weight marks or age? pretty sure it did.

Indeed Jim, I have had the same success using BRI. When such an excellent resource is overlooked/rejected I can't help losing respect for those who decide on such matters!

Thanks everyone - I found this RWI one, again with some faults but what do you all think, if you have time to look? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkndGf5RCrs I've watched many a DI video to see how they deliver, very informative. Youtube is such a great tool isn't it, if only you can find what you ...

Thanks Susan, it's not too bad and has good supporting information. I hope the Aussie teacher can follow the Lancashire accent!

We've got a new teacher at my school who is teaching reading for the first time to beginners- previously she was with younger children in Steiner, so not much experience there and even less in her initial training. She is very keen to learn, but people can only take in so much at once. A new teacher...