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**new preprint** Some reflections on children's reading and the simple view of reading psyarxiv.com/gtzqv

This looks very useful for teachers and clinicians - thanks for sharing 😊 Key take home message: we work *with* not *on* #workingmemory

The Language, Learning & Literacy Conference in Perth on 4th - 6th April, 2019 has a great line up of exceptional speakers. One of the many benefits of being a member of LDA is that you receive discounted registration rates to quality PL! literacylanguageconf.com

What is synthetic phonics? It's not 'fake words' or 'fake reading', it is systematic and explicit instruction on the alphabetic code, based on the best research evidence. Learn more and see it in action at the Phonics Roadshow in Perth in couple of weeks eventbrite.com.au/e/phonics-road…

“Putting the record straight about research on reading”, by Jennifer Buckingham is a response to Robyn Ewing’s paper, “Exploding SOME of the myths about learning to read: A review of research on the role of phonics”. fivefromfive.org.au/wp-content/upl…

The Wiz Kids are jetting to Perth in time for the #DSFConf

Doesn't our stand look great? Thanks for everyone's hard work that has lead to this moment.

Fabulous opening plenary by ⁦Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social⁩ at@#DSFconf in Perth. Discussing changes in children’s brains as a function of early reading proficiency. You can hear a pin drop in this large auditorium, filled with teachers, SLPs, psychs concerned with early reading success 📚

Great to see Little Learners Love Literacy’s Sound-Swap game - it has always been one of the key staples of a Sounds-Write approach! 😊😊 #DSFConf

The "Matthew Effect" is well known but don't forget about the "Peter Effect". Teachers cannot give what they do not have Pamela Snow #DSFConf Things need to change in tertiary education

How to teach reading is NOT contentious. 50 years of cognitive science tells us the most effective ways to a) teach and b) teach reading. This is really disappointing from UoM, and at odds with scientific leadership and scholarship.

Whole Language Unicorns at home at The University of Melbourne. My response to the David Hornsby podcast interview about "Phonics Vs Language": pamelasnow.blogspot.com/2019/04/whole-…

The English version of "Apprendre!", currently entitled "How we learn", will be published by Penguin Viking in early 2020. I just finalized the translation and adaptation. There will also be versions in Italian, Spanish, German... and Chinese of course!

Awesome! Little Learners Love Literacy Lyn Stone 👀

Dr. David Kilpatrick: phonemic awareness training is absolutely crucial for kids with RDs, speech-language pathologists are the most effective at teaching it yet, 'speech-language pathologists have always been an untapped resource in schools' SLPeeps @SPA President (Kathryn McKinley) #LDAKilpatrick

Thanks @spelfabet for *that* slide (new and improved). #LDAKilpatrick

Further to @spelfabet’s #BELLCoP public lecture this evening in which she mentioned #workingmemory & #CognitiveLoadTheory here’s a link to the @nswcese synthesis on this for teachers (and clinicians): cese.nsw.gov.au/publications-f…

The Tam and Pat (Series), created by Little Learners Love Literacy (in collaboration with DSF SPELD) has also been Highly Commended in the Student Resource – English (Literacy/Literature/Language) category 👧🏾✨ 🧑🏽 #EPAA2021 #PrimaryEdResource