Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...

Government data has shown that in 2022-23, 30% of five-year-olds in England were not meeting the expected standard for literacy at the end of their reception year at school. Literacy was the area of ...

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 ...

The decision to require all New York City elementary schools to teach a phonics-based curriculum will make New York a national leader in literacy education. The mandate, announced by Mayor Adams last ...

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long. Through ...

When children are taught to read and write though phonics they have to remember many exceptions, so-called 'sight words'. In addition, the linguist David Crystal estimated that almost half of all ...

Fletcher, Savage, and Sharon (Educational Psychology Review, 2020) have raised a number of conceptual and empirical challenges to my claim that there is little or no evidence for systematic phonics ...

An open letter is sent to the Education Secretary calling for changes in how children are taught in England, with less time spent on 'synthetic phonics' - which involves sounding out combinations of ...

Phonics plays a pivotal role in helping children comprehend language structure and simplifying grammar and syntax crucial for effective communication. Among a multitude of teaching techniques, Phonics ...

More children are meeting the expected standard in the "phonics check" for six-year-olds in England, the government says. Some 74% passed the test in 2014, up from 58% in 2012, new data suggests.