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 ...

Education Minister Ben Carroll announced that from next year every student in prep to grade 2 will be taught to read through a systematic synthetic phonics approach. Phonics explicitly teaches the ...

The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in England can “decode” words – has been raised to 90%. This increase, ...

How best to teach kids to read is a worldwide conversation – underscored recently in Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, by award-winning American Public Media investigative ...

Teachers are being instructed to dedicate just 10 minutes to teaching their students phonics at a northern suburbs school, despite the government’s 25 minute recommendation. From this year, students ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Students from prep to grade 2 will be taught using structured phonics as part of a new explicit teaching approach to be rolled out ...