by Optima | Sep 23, 2019 | Research into Core Instructional Principles
A fiercely contested debate in teaching reading concerns the respective roles and merits of reading schemes and real books. Underpinning the controversy are different philosophies and beliefs about how children learn to read. However, to some extent debates have...
by Optima | Sep 23, 2019 | Research into Core Instructional Principles
The value of teaching high frequency words to beginning readers as part of a ‘sight vocabulary’ (i.e. words read according to their orthography rather than according to their phonology) has been called into question by those advocating an exclusive role for synthetic...
by Optima | Sep 23, 2019 | Research into Core Instructional Principles
A similar article to ‘Optimal Sight Vocabulary’ is being prepared which identifies the optimal phonic skills to teach beginning readers. Researchers have suggested that there as many as 461 different phonic rules to teach. One well known programme teaches 120 and the...
by Optima | Sep 23, 2019 | Classroom-based Research into Raising Standards
This study took place over three academic years in 12 schools (six experimental and six comparison schools) and compared the Optima Reading Programme with schools adopting traditional methods to teach reading prior to the introduction of the National Literacy Strategy...
by Optima | Sep 23, 2019 | Classroom-based Research into Raising Standards
This study took place between over three academic years in 16 schools and compared the Optima Reading with the National Literacy Strategy (NLS). The results from Study 2 were very similar to those in Study 1. Children made better progress when children were taught...
