England’s education secretary has endorsed a plan that would mandate a more direct method of teaching phonics. Read the British consultant’s report on literacy instruction. Ruth Kelly, who took over ...

Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...

A NEW report suggests a back-to-basics approach to teaching children reading and writing skills could be the most effective. A scientific study analysing phonics instruction in schools has shown ...

The government has promised a review of teaching reading in England's primary schools, particularly looking at a method called "synthetic phonics". But what exactly is it? Most schools in England ...

The Scottish Executive is to spread synthetic phonics teaching across Scotland. The method teaches children to blend letter sounds to form words and has been found to advance children's reading and ...

The advocates of synthetic phonics are in little doubt about what will happen, however, if synthetic phonics does not become the main method of teaching reading in our schools: standards will continue ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Could you read the word “intravenous” when you were in grade 3? Did you know the superlative suffix for “pretty”? It’s Wednesday morning ...

Teachers will have access to greater resources to adopt a mandated phonics based approach to reading for prep to grade two students following a reported government deal with the teachers union. It’s ...