Contents
Council Notes
- Lorraine Hammond: From the President
- Michael Roberts & Sarah Asome: Council News
- Olivia Connelly: Vale Susan Howard
- LDA National Conference, January 2021
- LDA Awards 2020
Special issue: Comprehension
- Roslyn Neilson: In this issue of the Bulletin…
- Anna Desjardins: Speech-to-print and print-to-speech: Two sides of a single coin – let’s not devalue the currency.
- Jan Wasowicz: A Speech-to-Print approach to teaching reading
- Roslyn Neilson: Forum on Decodable Readers: Introduction
- Sue Lloyd and Sara Wernham: The Australian curriculum and the role of decodable readers in systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) programs
- Katrina Kelso, Anne Whitworth & Suze Leitão: Assessing poor comprehenders – A guide for teachers
- Nickola Wolf Nelson: Overcoming challenges in developing tests of language comprehension
Book reviews
- Lyn Stone: The Knowledge Gap: The hidden cause of America’s broken education system – and how to fix it, by Natalie Wexler (2019)
- Ros Neilson: Robust comprehension instruction with Questioning the Author – 15 years smarter, by Isabel Beck, Margaret McKeown & Cheryl Sandora (2021)
Consultant Notes
Olivia Connelly: Consultant notes