England’s education secretary has endorsed a plan that would mandate a more direct method of teaching phonics. Read the British consultant’s report on literacy instruction. Ruth Kelly, who took over ...

Elizabeth Nonweiler accused ministers of embedding “mixed messages” into a new £8.2 million scheme to improve literacy.

Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...

The Scottish Executive is to spread synthetic phonics teaching across Scotland. The method teaches children to blend letter sounds to form words and has been found to advance children's reading and ...

Elizabeth Nonweiler has written to Education Minister Lynne Neagle saying Wales' literacy panel has achieved next to nothing ...

New Delhi [India], October 29: Jolly Phonics, the world-renowned English literacy programme by Jolly Learning (UK), is set to strengthen its footprint in India through an extensive teacher training ...

Teachers will have access to greater resources to adopt a mandated phonics based approach to reading for prep to grade two students following a reported government deal with the teachers union. It’s ...

A study of 300 Scottish primary school pupils suggests that those taught with explicit, systematic phonics—the letters and letter sounds that make up words—learn to read more quickly than their peers ...

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