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, ...

The conclusions of the review into how children should be taught to read will be reflected in the new Early Years Foundation Stage, children's minister Beverley Hughes has confirmed. The review, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A minority of children are already beginning to read by the time they start school This video can not be played Durham University's Andrew Davis: "It's not reading for meaning" The interests of able ...

Alice Bradbury receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust which funds the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy at UCL. She is a member of the Labour Party and the Universities and College Union. The ...