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No more barking at words, please.
(From Western Daily Press)
Sir - Teaching reading simply through phonics can narrow the achievement gap, according to a six-year study at St Michael's Church of England primary school in Stoke Gifford.
Teachers concentrated on the link between letters on the page and their sounds (just how my mother taught me to read) abandoning "whole word" techniques ("barking at words" as it has come to be known).
The improvement has been particularly marked in boys, with their preference for logic over rote. Around a third of those in the study reached level five in writing, compared to 9.5 per cent in the local authority and 11 per cent nationally.
The inference is that literacy could be further improved ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post March 19, 1988 700+ words
...Titled "Y Beibl Cymraeg Newydd/The New Welsh Bible," the volume is the result of 26 years...vernacular. The anniversary and the new Welsh Bible are being celebrated throughout Great...who edited the revised version of the Welsh Bible in 1620. In addition, the Royal Mint...
- Stamps are a testament to Welsh Bible creators
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Charless Hahn February 28, 1988 700+ words
Britain on Tuesday will issue a set of stamps commemorating the 400th anniversary of the creation of the Welsh Bible. Portrayed on the 18-pence stamp is Rector William Morgan, who later became Bishop Morgan and translated the first complete...
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SIR - March 4 being the day of the book, I would like to inform you of the New Revised Edition of the New Welsh Bible that was published last Saturday. It contains nearly 6,000 changes from the 1988 edition - noting not only the changes in scholarship...
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...rich literary tradition, there was no standard version of Welsh to assist the translator; nevertheless, the calls for a Welsh Bible grew apace. The Scriptures in Welsh William Salesbury instigated the petition to Parliament in 1561 calling for a Welsh and...
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A book considered to be one of the most important ever published in Welsh is now available to view by anyone in the world. Exactly 400 years after the death of the Bishop William Morgan in 1604, a digital version of his 1588 Bible can now be seen online for the first time ever on The National
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- Antiquity JACOBI, R.M. PETTITT, P.B. September 1, 2000 700+ words
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