On a damp weekday evening not long ago, a parent at the back of a school hall scrolled through their phone while waiting for pickup, pausing briefly and nodding ...

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The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called “systematic synthetic phonics” is the only way to teach reading. Synthetic phonics involves teaching children the 44 sounds, or ...

A new study suggests children taught to read using phonics techniques can achieve a reading age up to two years above their expected level. Results from the study conducted by educational psychologist ...

Synthetic phonics, where children are taught to pronounce sounds in isolation before putting them together to form words, isn’t working for many struggling young readers, a study led by Professor ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called “systematic ...

Students that are EAL learners and others with sizeable gaps in their literacy skills are now funnelled into one of two interventions, both of which are aligned with the science of learning and ...

New Delhi [India], October 29: Jolly Phonics, the world-renowned English literacy programme by Jolly Learning (UK), is set to strengthen its footprint in India through an extensive teacher training ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Welsh Government’s plans to raise reading standards have been thrown into doubt after a key member of its expert literacy ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.