I barely recall how I was taught to read. But as I grew up in Britain in the 1970s, it is likely to have been by what is called the 'whole-language' approach. An image that sticks is the teacher ...

Since 2010, five- and six-year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics.” “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Cathie Wallace is ...

Education Minister Ben Carroll announced that from next year every student in prep to grade 2 will be taught to read through a systematic synthetic phonics approach. Phonics explicitly teaches the ...

Available to Espresso users from September, 'Time for Phonics by Discovery Education' will give schools a complete suite of resources to teach systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) to pupils in Reception ...

The manner in which children are taught to read in England is in need of urgent reform, more than 250 experts have said in a letter to the government. According to research, led by academics from UCL, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Victorian primary school teachers will be required to adopt a phonics-based reading approach meaning students will be taught to sound ...

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...

In short: All Victorian state schools will use phonics to teach reading from 2025. The government says teachers will spend a minimum of 25 minutes a day on "explicit teaching" of phonics and phonemic ...