Debbie Hepplewhite, Phonics International, UK. Free well designed phonics program and charts, how to videos, information. Debbie is a former teacher and has been a phonics advocate for decades.
Five From Five Australia, “promoting effective, evidence-based reading instruction, by providing free resources to teachers, principals and parents and advocating for evidence-based policy with politicians and policy makers.”
Tasmania Farmer, Merchants of Illiteracy and an article about his efforts in the Australian press. Details Tasmania’s literacy crisis and explains the science of reading and the need for change.
Spelfabet, Speech Pathologist, Australia. Helpful, accessible, Australian information for anyone who wants to help a beginning or struggling reader/speller. She also has well designed, inexpensive phonics and phonemic awareness resources and games.
Pamela Snow, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Australia. Along with many academic publications and books, she writes The Snow Report, where she advocates for literacy.
International Foundation for Effective Reading Instruction (IFEIRI), members from all over the world, “exists to raise awareness of the unacceptable variation in content, methodology and quality of teaching reading and writing in the English language around the world – whether English is the first or additional language.”
Teaching them how to read is probably one of the most important duties a civilised society owes to its children. Being able to “lift words off the page” and understand their meaning is transformational as a life skill.
Don Potter, Texas, United States. Tutor, former teacher. His Wide Interest Website has a ton of educational resources. He has a variety of free and inexpensive phonics, spelling, handwriting, and math resources. Don has been an advocate for phonics for decades. Don Potter's new National Phonics Primer Website centers on his latest book, Natural Phonics Primer, providing a streamlined focus as a "universal safety net for literacy" with emphasis on basic phonics fluency for all ages.
Faith Borkowsky, High Five Literacy, New York, United States. Tutor, Certified Dyslexia Practitioner. She is the author of several books about literacy and has a podcast called “The Literacy View.” She has a Facebook group to help parents teach their dyslexic children with the inexpensive and effective Word Wasp book.
Emily Hanford, United States. Senior correspondent and Producer. She started with an investigation and report about dyslexia in 2017, “Hard to Read.” This led to further articles and the podcast series “Sold A Story,” which sparked widespread interest and debate on reading instruction and the science of reading.
