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• This is because England’s curriculum policies and guidance have restricted phonics lessons to an overwhelming emphasis on phonemes and letters at the expense of other aspects of reading, and writing, that are not to be covered in phonics lessons.
• Aspects such as comprehension, engaging with real books, and writing activities, are all to be taught in different lessons.
• One consequence of England’s synthetic phonics is that children are likely to be less motivated to read, because synthetic phonics lessons are not focused on motivation and real purposes for reading.

Models of reading

• In spite of some positive aspects, the main limitation of the Simple View of Reading – and some other, similar models for learning to read – is that the original evidence base was research done with children who struggle with reading, rather than research done with more typical readers.
• What’s more, the models do not include various elements that are important for effective teaching because they are more focused on a limited range of elements of children’s learning.
• My new research with colleague Charlotte Hacking proposes a new model of reading, which we call the “Double Helix”.
• But as an expert in reading education, I think that this trend is not backed up by a balanced and rigorous appraisal of the evidence of what works in the teaching of reading and writing.

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