Debbie – Phonics Intervention

3rd April 2017

My PowerPoint presentation delivered at the researchED/OUP English & MFL conference, April 2017: “What’s ‘holding back’ research-informed foundational literacy from reaching all teachers and learners?”

I was very pleased to be invited to speak again at another researchED conference (jointly hosted by Oxford University Press) featuring English and Modern Foreign Languages. […]

9th February 2017

The same teachers when equipped with the right kind of guidance and a fit-for-purpose body of work for teaching and learning make remarkable differences in short periods of time.

In my previous blog post, I made this claim: “The same teachers when equipped with the right kind of guidance and a fit-for-purpose body of work […]

3rd February 2017

England: The Department for Education pulls the plug on the Year 3 phonics screening check after the pilot in 300 schools

The DfE-commissioned report of the pilot for Year 3s retaking the Year 1 phonics screening check has now been published. I found it dismaying that such […]

28th January 2017

Thinkreadtweet’s post is a MUST read: ‘Looking Past the Masks’

This post by ‘thinkreadtweet’ is SO important and there’s absolutely no point in me writing something similar for my blog. You will find there are quite […]