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play0:00 / 5:25Journalists and writer Gitta Sereny, known for her books about the nature of evil, has died age 91. Author Blake Morrison told the Today...
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play0:00 / 7:16Yoko Ono, artist and widow of John Lennon, has returned to London with an exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery. Speaking to the BBC's ar...
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play0:00 / 5:06What does the euro crisis tell us about the resilience of European democracy and co-operation? Miri Rubin, professor of European history ...
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play0:00 / 11:22World leaders have welcomed the narrow election victory of Greece's broadly pro-bailout New Democracy party and urged Athens to form a ca...
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play0:00 / 2:51The adult human population has a combined weight of 287,000,000 tonnes, according to new research. Scientists from the London School of ...Yaka likes this.
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play0:00 / 5:14Five and six-year-olds across England are to be taught to read using the system known as phonics again. Dr Mary Bousted, general secreta...clairebrayne likes this.
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MnstrIsleResort This is one of the most painful conversations I've had to endure when considering the teaching of literacy. Phonics is an important element in early childhood when promoting phonemic awareness and a basic understanding of how our writing system works, but as a sole approach to the teaching of reading it is horrendously inadequate. Reading is a form of written communication, and it should be taken as such. Phonics strategies can be used to decode certain more difficult words, but if that's all students know, then reading becomes extremely cumbersome and difficult. Context, confirmed predictions, picturing the events, and inferencing are all far more effective strategies for teaching students to read in any kind of meaningful way. I've also taught reading for years, and I've never seen the joy of reading absolutely crushed more rapidly than when Phonics is the only instruction thrust upon kids. If we want our students to become life-long readers, then there must be a joy to it.
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play0:00 / 2:18Last month, a nine-year-old schoolgirl Martha Payne started a blog about her school dinners, which has gone on to receive more than a mil...
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play0:00 / 5:46How can gang culture and gang violence in London be tackled? Boris Johnson, the mayor of London, told listeners of BBC Radio 4 Today's p...
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play0:00 / 11:02The government and the Bank of England have come up with a scheme to lend money to banks very cheaply on the condition they lend it on to...
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play0:00 / 4:56The strategy published by the government last year on mental health will be the focus of five hours of debate in the Commons today. The B...
