Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...

The government has promised a review of teaching reading in England's primary schools, particularly looking at a method called "synthetic phonics". But what exactly is it? Most schools in England ...

Children who struggle with reading can make dramatic progress in just a fortnight when they are given traditional lessons, a report reveals today. The study by a think-tank showed that primary school ...

The Education ministry has signed a Memorandum of Understand (MOU) with Chris Jolly, the originator of Jolly Phonics to incorporate the teaching method in basic schools across the country. Addressing ...

The advocates of synthetic phonics are in little doubt about what will happen, however, if synthetic phonics does not become the main method of teaching reading in our schools: standards will continue ...

The interests of able readers are being threatened by an insistence primary school pupils are taught to read using phonics, an academic has said. The Department for Education wants English schools to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. It’s Wednesday morning at Chelsea Primary, a state school in Melbourne’s south-eastern sandbelt, and these questions are being put at ...

The embrace of phonics to teach the youngest primary school pupils to read appears to be paying dividends after new figures showed a rise in the number of pupils passing the government’s benchmarks ...