Anne Glennie's 'Phonics Forever' training in Scotland

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Anne Glennie's 'Phonics Forever' training in Scotland

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Here is an example of Anne Glennie's training content in Scotland - Anne highly recommends Phonics International as a practical body of work to support busy teachers and tutors:


http://www.scis.org.uk/professional-lea ... cs-forever


Everyone at the Reading Reform Foundation conference fell in love with Anne Glennie and were particularly wowed by her short talk - see the second video embedded here:

http://www.iferi.org/the-reading-reform ... 5-updated/

It is the saddest irony that the Government in England was influenced by the Scottish 'Clackmannanshire' research (Johnston and Watson) and yet Scotland itself remains largely eclectic (not systematic synthetic phonics) in its approach to reading instruction.
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Anne Glennie writes to politicians and others to try and raise awareness about the teaching and teacher-training in Scotland:

http://www.thelearningzoo.co.uk/2015/05 ... /#comments
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