Free download of my very short book "To read or not to read: decoding synthetic phonics" available at

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2048-416X.2013.12000.x/abstract

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Miscellaneous media articles

 

2014 A Plague on the Fundamentalism of synthetic phonics http://news.tes.co.uk/b/opinion/2014/01/28/39-a-plague-on-the-fundamentalism-of-synthetic-phonics-39.aspx

2014 Interview with Nursery World http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/nursery-world/other/1142017/interview-andrew-davis-research-fellow-durhamuniversitys-school-education

2014 Don’t let reading wars hold back more able children The Conversation February 3rd  https://theconversation.com/dont-let-reading-wars-hold-back-more-able-children-22468

2014 Reading lessons: why synthetic phonics doesn't work http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/mar/04/reading-lessons-phonics-world-book-day

 

See TES forum on early version of my academic article A monstrous regimen of synthetic phonics: fantasies of research-based teaching 'methods' versus real teaching

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BBC coverage and over 900 comments at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25917646

 

 

Open Letter to Michael Gove urging abolition of the Phonics Screening Check

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David Aldridge writes about all this

 

http://davealdridge.brookesblogs.net/2014/06/29/on-phonics-denialists/

 

and

 

https://theconversation.com/phonics-is-not-a-fix-all-drug-that-will-get-all-children-reading-28868