Tag: phonics
Can all children learn to read?
Ann Sullivan looks at reading capabilities in children.Whenever asked a question are you, like me, secretly hoping that the answer will be a simple one...
It’s never too late for phonics
Sheila Mulvenney lays out the many advantages of teaching phonics at all stages of schooling.
However skilled we are as readers, even as adults we...
Focussing on phonics
Debbie Hepplewhite offers some practical ideas to support the evaluation of phonics provision in class
In support of phonics
New research confirms the effectiveness of phonics as a method of teaching reading, writes Kathy Rastle
England climbs up reading tables
England has moved up the international league table for teaching reading. The Programme of International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), the international comparison of reading...
No joined-up thinking
Government recommendations for teaching reading are putting out contradictory signals, says Debbie Hepplewhite. So which reading instruction methods are teachers expected to follow?