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Daisy Christodoulou · Mike Lloyd-Jones · phonicsphobia

Down with miserablism!

April 16, 2014 John

Mike Lloyd-Jones’s new book Phonics and the Resistance to Reading is an absolute cracker! Without in the least patronising his readership, Mike’s panoptic survey of the teaching of reading takes us back to the beginning of the nineteenth century and all the way to the present day. His story begins in 1807, where, he says,… Continue reading Down with miserablism!

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