Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways that work best for them.

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

In Room 254 at Hartford’s Martin Luther King School, reading workbooks and grammar books are out. Poetry is in. “A tree toad loved a she-toad Who lived up in a tree . . .” Forty young voices ...

Government data has shown that in 2022-23, 30% of five-year-olds in England were not meeting the expected standard for literacy at the end of their reception year at school. Literacy was the area of ...

Chelsea Salts, 7, practices with a handset tube during her phonics training. The handset tube helps the students hear themselves as they quietly read out loud. Soon-to-be second-grader Chelsea Salts ...

With many parents wanting to give their kids a head start when it comes to reading, Phonics with Robert Reg, a phonics class with 55 locations across the UK will just do just that. It’s now arrived ...

Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as ...