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Tap into cutting-edge research and up-to-date instructional approaches lead by experts in phonics Professor Saskia Kohnen (she/her/hers), Professor Rauno Parrila, and Dr Valeria Rigabon. Learn more here: acu.edu.au/course/phonics…

An exciting opportunity to join one of the leading Teacher Education Institutions in Australia.

I hope as many of you as possible will be able to join me and lots of other reading experts at this excellent meeting (and a bonus that it's in beautiful Perth)

Introduces PG Toolkit, a new tool for measuring English spelling-sound consistency, and uses it to conduct detailed analyses of pseudoword spellings that provide new insights into the nature of sublexical and lexical representations tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.108…

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Off the back of the #DSFConf, surreal last-minute night with Oxford and Macquarie connections in our backyard! Anne Castles Saskia Kohnen (she/her/hers) George Perry (she/her) Andrea Salins Danielle Colenbrander Jessie Ricketts, moving to @rickettslara.bsky Signy Wegener Erin Banales (she/her)

Some people talk about "back-to-basics" as if explicitly teaching basic (essential) things to novices and building incrementally is a bad thing. Maybe we need to re-frame (more accurately) as "Forward from Fundamentals".

This was very fine, on several levels.

do you think of orthographic mapping as something beginning readers do to build up their sight vocabularies? Or are you, a skilled reader, doing it as you read this post?

when it comes to philosophy of mind, the early moderns always got there first

This has been true of Hopkins for a long long time

.Celia Harris is advertising a phd scholarship opportunity at MARCS in Sydney:

there are few people on earth i would rather see this thread from than van rooij

2-factor explanations begin by asking "What initially brought delusional idea to mind?" (that's F1). Jesus, what contact did Mrs M have w. butcher before delusion onset? Kapur-style excessive salience could have been during contact. Delusion wd be attempted explanation of this

The problem is that peer review *is* now being paid, in the sense that your peer-reviewing activity is now being documented, so can be added to your CV, and so can now help you get promoted. Could that be the motive for generating reviews by plagiarizing?

NZ Education Minister Erica Stanford has confirmed the end of #ReadingRecovery in NZ schools. This is history in the making & time now for a true “reading recovery” for NZ children. No child should have to recover from their initial reading instruction 🙌 newshub.co.nz/home/politics/…

Do any reading practitioners know which reading scheme these characters come from?

X/Twitter now genuinely gone crazy. So I'm outta here. Goodbye, followers.