Reading Reform Foundation Links

Research Methods Government Miscellaneous

Research into Reading

Word frequencies in written and spoken English

The Science of Word Recognition: how reading really happens

Clackmannanshire Study A seven year longitudinal study of the results of synthetic phonics teaching. PDF, 250 Kbytes

Defining Dyslexia: A Modern Dilemma - SchwabLearning.org, USA

Developmental dyslexia in adults: a research review. NRDC

"Dyslexia" versus "garden-variety poor reading". University of Würzburg. Abstract in English.

Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, and Vision: A Subject Review

Sensory bases of reading and language disorders: Submitted Abstracts

Myths of Dyslexia, by Susan Godsland

Fast ForWord assessed as ineffective in randomized trials

Reading Comprehension Strategies, by Daniel T. Willingham. PDF, 212 Kbytes

Reading Recovery: Distinguishing the Myth from the Reality. PDF, 125 Kbytes

Systematic Phonics Instruction: Findings of the National Reading Panel, reported by Linnea C. Ehri

Dr Kerry Hempenstall on teaching methods. Direct Instruction; phonics; other links above

Practice makes permanent Dr Kerry Hempenstall on how the brain constructs efficient reading circuitry

Fad, Fraud, and Folly in Education Professor Martin A. Kozloff, Watson School of Education

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The Alphabetic Code. PDF 53 Kbytes

Catphonics: Mona McNee's Synthetic Phonics Method in HTML

The New Literacy Framework Jennifer Chew comments on recent DfES advice concerning the teaching of reading.

Synthetic phonics.com Debbie Hepplewhite's web site. Links to testing resources near the bottom of the home page.

Criteria for evaluating and selecting a phonics programme; PDF, 9 Kbytes

RRF Article by Jennifer Chew: Analytic phonics makes a come-back - but where is synthetic phonics?

Practical experience with synthetic phonics. See post 5: too slow, but an improvement on previous methods

Stairway to Reading Program a free reading programme from the Society for Quality Education (Canadian)

Teaching slow learners: TES thread with advice from Debbie Hepplewhite

Phonics in the nursery: TES thread with advice from Debbie Hepplewhite

High Frequency Words Useful list (.doc). For a better teaching method see Comment below

Comment how to teach non-decodable HFWs

Letters and Sounds Government supplied reading scheme with SP component

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Rose Report, final version; PDF, 432 Kbytes

Letter from the Secretary of State for Education and Skills, promulgating the Rose Report. PDF 42 Kbytes

Select Committee on Education and Skills, eighth report, November 2004: "Teaching Children to Read"

Minutes of Debbie Hepplewhite's evidence to the Select Committee on Education and Skills

National Curriculum

Jim Rose: "Cracking the Code" - an interview on www.teachernet.gov.uk

Jim Rose: Evidence to the Education and Skills Committee, 30 January 2006

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Abbreviations used on the Reading Reform Foundation message board

"Teachers' plot" Minette Marrin on SEN and Synthetic Phonics in Tower Hamlets

PLATO People Lobbying Against Teaching Outcomes: Australian site, with links to AART newsletters

AART Australian Association of Reading Teachers