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May 28, 2008 - Robyn Dalby-Stockwell Questions Reading Recovery.
“Is Reading Recovery quite what it seems?” asks well known phonics expert Robyn Dalby-Stockwell.
“This method of teaching failed readers is available in the UK and great claims are made for its success. But research by Diane McGuinness, Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida, reveals that Reading Recovery has been discredited by research scientists in New Zealand, where it evolved, Australia and the USA. It has been proven to be massively more expensive and to have a lower success rate than synthetic phonics’ remedial programmes. Synthetic phonics used consistently from Reception onwards would have children reading fluently, avoiding all need for any type of remedial programme. Why should any child be regularly removed from its class for remedial reading? Why should any child have to ‘recover’ from a school reading programme?”
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