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 ...

Research on how kids learn to read has not always penetrated the teaching profession, though that’s generally no fault of the teachers: It’s that approaches to reading based on the mechanics of ...

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Schools across the country have been shifting their reading strategies to incorporate knowledge and best practices they have learned from the science of reading. More than 30 states have written ...

The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in England can “decode” words – has been raised to 90%. This increase, ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...