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10 minute plan to prevent Year 3 Literacy Crisis
Following the daily Systematic Synthetic Phonics lesson in Reception and Year 1 a guided teaching session with BRI decodable stories...
30 Reasons to Teach Children to Read Using BRI Decodable Readers
Section 1 Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) Â 1. Simplified Instruction BRI instruction is spare and unambiguous. No time is wasted before...
Decluttering the Curriculum
There are some excellent Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) programmes for beginner readers. Each one includes meticulous sequencing, an...
Phonics Reading Program for Teens, Adults and Older Children
A Simple and Affordable Approach to Learning to Read The only thing the literacy-challenged student needs to know before launching into...
Discovering Mature Reading Instruction (MRI): Empowering Adults to Learn to Read Via Synthetic Phonics
Delve into Piper Books' Mature Reading Instruction (MRI), a groundbreaking scheme designed to instil reading expertise through a...
How to Teach your Child to Read
Should I start teaching my child to read or leave it to the school? With media focus on literacy levels, SATS tests and the National...
What Distinguishes BRI-ARI as a Reading Programme?
1 Development A team of linguists, educational psychologists, psychometricians and children’s authors developed BRI-ARI over a number of...
I See Sam: Scope, Sequence & Structure Adapted for Older Readers
The idea of Mature Reading Instruction (MRI) came from Dr Richard Schutz, Director of the American South West Reading Laboratory. The...
Help for Secondary School Pupils Struggling with Literacy
MRI: MATURE READING INSTRUCTION Secondary School Intervention "To be unable to read is to be locked out, to be isolated from discourse,...
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