Phonics International

Pauline, I think you'd find Peter Warner's website interesting and useful. He's an English teacher in Japan.

http://www.english-in-japan.com/English ... /Home.html

http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/ There are 5 Big Ideas in Beginning Reading: Phonemic Awareness Alphabetic Principle Fluency with Text Vocabulary Comprehension Where did the Big Ideas in Beginning Reading come from? In 1997, congress asked the NICHD, along with the U.S. Department of Education,...

http://nifdi.org/news-latest-2/blog-hempenstall/402-the-three-cueing-system-in-reading-will-it-ever-go-away The three-cueing system in reading: Will it every go away? http://www.societyforqualityeducation.org/newsletter/archives/solitudes.pdf Marilyn Jager Adams: '' In the world of practice, the wid...

The twitter person was using an Ad Hominem, attacking you rather than your argument, probably because they didn't have the ability to counter your argument.

Someone on twitter accused you of not showing enough deference by calling him 'Mr' rather than 'Professor' Davis

NIFDI keep moving links around. The link below should work:

The Three-Cueing System: Help or Hindrance?

http://nifdi.org/resources/downloads/do ... ing-system

I can't find one on Debbie's chart website but there's one in the Letters and Sounds notes of guidance booklet p27/28

http://www.teachfind.com/national-strat ... d-teachers

HTH

Absolutely agree about the Simple View of Reading, Debbie. It's been ignored and subverted by many in the teaching profession. Back to the Phil Beadle TV series, I have a lot of time for PB. He highlighted the fact that there is virtually no effective teaching of the decoding basics for non-readers ...

I remember the Phil Beadle programmes. I would describe him as using a self-devised phonics programme with the adults. I think he took advice from Jolly Phonics and Ruth Miskin (not experts on adult literacy interventions), but his main advice came from 'dyslexia specialists' -and we now know the so...

Congratulations Debbie! This has been long awaited. I think good handwriting and joined handwriting is entirely relevant in our technological age - we still benefit from writing by hand There's good evidence that handwriting helps with reading and spelling: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educa...

According to MP Andrew Selous, he's

''Delighted to get support on Mumsnet for my call for schools to correct more than 3 spelling mistakes in each piece of a child's work.''

IMO, they should only be asked to handwrite using code that they have been taught and letters that they can form with reasonable confidence and accuracy.

hal, I thought this RRF article by Tom Burkard had some connection with your question -it's about independent writing and spelling in the early years:

http://www.rrf.org.uk/archive.php?n_ID= ... eNumber=53

HTH

Debbie, Please would you comment on 'independent writing', where little ones who have been taught a basic code are then encouraged to write stories, diaries etc. using phonic spellings -i.e. their writing is readable but the spellings aren't necessarily correct as they only have only learnt one way ...

Also, I saw on your website that you had a link to JollyPhonics. Do you suggest using some of the books from the program to supplement your program? I hope that PI users will find the following helpful: Guidance on choosing and using a ‘decodable books’ scheme with beginning/struggling readers - Ch...