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Teaching the Rope

Posted on 24th January 202324th January 2023 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Disadvantaged Pupils, Learning to Read, Reading Difficulties, SEN, Synthetic Phonics and tagged alphabetic code, DfE validation, reading rope, science of reading, teach SEND children to readLeave a Comment

Scarboroughs reading rope

Scarborough, H. S. (2001). Connecting early language and literacy to later reading (dis)abilities: Evidence, theory, and practice. In S. Neuman & D. Dickinson (Eds.), Handbook for research in early literacy (pp. 97-110). New York: Guilford Press. The Reading Rope was developed by Dr. Hollis Scarborough to provide a framework for understanding the different skills that are necessary […]

What’s going on with ‘Letters and Sounds’?

Posted on 22nd July 202123rd July 2021 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Decodable Books, Reading Resources, Synthetic Phonics and tagged Department of Education validation, DfE SSP validaton, DfE validation, Explain DfE validation, information on DfE validation, Letters and Sounds validation, match decodable books and SSP, Removal of Letters and Sounds, SSP validation, Systematic Synthetic Phonics validation, Validation by DfE, What is happening to Letters and Sounds?, What is the DfE validation?, where can I find decodable books ?1 Comment

The Department for Education has announced that is it ‘retiring’ the ‘Letters and Sounds’ programme which was published in 2007. In its place, it is asking publishers to submit their phonics programmes for revalidation. Initially, the DfE planned to update ‘Letters and Sounds’ but then decided to allow schools to create programmes, based on their […]