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A short history of reading instruction and in particular of the Whole language versus Phonics dispute.

Teach in first language, it’s key to success

Opinion piece by the Director of the Molteno Institute for Language and Literacy on why switching to second-language teaching too early places pupils at a ...

A lively discussion of the entrenched rate of illiteracy among Australian children which identifies a failure in the institutions teaching reading educators to ...

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for English Language Arts and Reading: Elementary

Essentially a curriculum framework for elementary school grades (up to Grade 4). Detailed and useful.

Four standards for reading specialists

For useful standards for reading specialists and subject advisors

English Language Arts and Reading Generalist EC–6 Standards

Twelve well thought out standards with details on What teachers know and on What teachers can do for each standard

Presentation on the work of the National Reading Coalition set up by the National Education Collaboration Trust and the Department of Basic Education's Read to ...

Towards competency standards for language and literacy teachers

A position paper of the Consolidated Literacy Working Group of PrimTEd on its approach to standards for language and literacy teachers

Why the New Zealand National Literacy Strategy has failed and what can be done about it.

Responding to evidence from PIRLS 2011 and Reading Recovery monitoring data that New Zealand’s 1999 National Literacy Strategy had failed, the authors look at ...

Using Funda Wande resources in teacher education programmes

Presentation made to a PrimTEd seminar in February 2020