The Bookseller’s Children’s Conference heard how the government’s "pressure” on schools around phonics means that the overall ...

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 ...

This recent meta-analysis examined 59 studies of spelling interventions for students who had, or were at risk for, learning ...

A headteacher from East London has hit back at claims phonics teaching is "almost a form of abuse." The research from the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain claims that using synthetic ...

A new approach to teaching children how to read has been implemented in schools across the country, with educators seeing a dramatic improvement in scores. Known as the 'science of reading,' this ...

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Headteachers who resist teaching phonics are denying students the “education they deserve”, the Schools Minister has warned. Attacking heads who refuse to accept the “overwhelming evidence” in favour ...

Here, Primary Teacher April Dowdall has shared some of the resources she uses in her class to give parents some tips on how to teach phonics to younger kids at home. These videos were made for the ...

A quarter of schools are still not using back-to-basics methods to teach reading, according to ministers. Synthetic phonics has been on the national curriculum since 2006 and all schools have had ...

England's schools are being told to change the way they teach children to read, with the government calling for greater use of a system called synthetic phonics. At the moment, guidance is that ...