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 ...

Experts have released robust research to show that phonics should be taught hand-in-hand with reading and writing to encourage true literacy and a love of reading, not through narrow synthetic phonics ...

WELL, THE ROAD TO READING IS GETTING A BIG BOOST. AT ONE GLENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. IT’S ALL THANKS TO TV’S CASH FOR SCHOOLS PROGRAM. IT’S A PARTNERSHIP WITH MEDICAL SOLUTIONS, NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY ...

Defiant teachers yesterday vowed to resist the revival of back-to-basics methods of teaching children to read. They are urging schools to retain techniques discredited by a Government-backed review ...

Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...

Last week, I spent a fascinating afternoon at John Donne primary school with 24 early years and foundation stage (EYFS) teachers listening to deputy head and early years specialist Ruth Moyler share ...

A special education teacher explains how a balance between technology and one-on-one instruction has ignited her students’ love for reading. When I started teaching 20 years ago, my students weren’t ...

A system of phonics which builds on a child's own language has been found to boost reading skills, academics say. A study of more than 900 primary school children taught using a system known as ...