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As I write, there is an Education and Skills
Select Committee (House of Commons) enquiry into 'Teaching Children to Read'.
They aim to produce their recommendations in about April 2005. It is common knowledge
that Ofsted are not happy with the Word Level strand of the National Literacy
Strategy. Both written and oral submissions to the committee indicate that many
people are not happy with E.L.S and the other 'NLS' add-ons ('patch-ups'). I
believe that there are many fundamental flaws with E.L.S. I think it is better
to focus on the 'THRASS 10' stages rather than trying to incorporate THRASS into
a flawed 'patch-up'. A question to you: "At what age are you going to move
children on from E.L.S and how are you going to do it?" (see TEACHING THRASS,
page 9, Main Distinguishing Features, No. 5…"there is no need for any
'Changeover Teaching'….").
Teaching Children to Read, England 2004
Select Committee Report,
England 2005
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