Josie was invited to provide a talk about intervention in a secondary school agt the March 2015 Reading Reform Foundation conference.
There was a great deal of interest generated by her talk - and Josie raises very serious questions in her posting - and I've left some comments in response:
https://josiemingay.wordpress.com/2015/ ... omment-128
Not to add fuel to the fire in the debate around the phonics screening check at the end of Year 1, but I am a keen and outed supporter. Ensuring that any individual has a good grasp of the fundamental skills of reading and writing can surely only be a good thing.
With my SEN head on, however, there seems to be a flaw in the system. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but my understanding of it is as follows: