Tag: literacy
Joining-up phonics support
Abigail Steel provides five steps to improve phonics inclusivity in mainstream classrooms
Phonics: politics and practice
Official guidance may have caused more problems for teaching reading than it’s solved, writes Debbie Hepplewhite
Technology is key to literacy
Touch-screen technology could be a vital new weapon to combat low literacy in key target groups – boys and disadvantaged children. New research published...
Talking matters
David Maytham introduces some easy-to-use word games to improve literacy and transform the classroom environment
Fighting the good fight
Tim Loder describes the struggle to secure an education for his daughter in which her dyslexia is no barrier
Where next for phonics?
Debbie Hepplewhite looks at the progress, practice and problems of synthetic phonics teaching in schools
Technology helps disadvantaged kids into reading
Devices such as smartphones and tablet computers can provide a new and important route into reading for three- to five-year-olds from disadvantaged backgrounds, according...
Teach how they learn
Sarah Driver looks at what schools can do to identify and meet the real needs of dyslexic pupils
