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 ...
OXFORD, England, Feb. 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- A landmark study written by UCL academics and published in the Review of Education on the 18 th January, 2022, is calling for the government to abandon ...
A study of 300 Scottish primary school pupils suggests that those taught with explicit, systematic phonics—the letters and letter sounds that make up words—learn to read more quickly than their peers ...
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 ...
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 ...
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