Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called “systematic ...

WELL, THE ROAD TO READING IS GETTING A BIG BOOST. AT ONE GLENWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. IT’S ALL THANKS TO TV’S CASH FOR SCHOOLS PROGRAM. IT’S A PARTNERSHIP WITH MEDICAL SOLUTIONS, NORTHEAST ELEMENTARY ...

Defiant teachers yesterday vowed to resist the revival of back-to-basics methods of teaching children to read. They are urging schools to retain techniques discredited by a Government-backed review ...

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...

Last week, I spent a fascinating afternoon at John Donne primary school with 24 early years and foundation stage (EYFS) teachers listening to deputy head and early years specialist Ruth Moyler share ...

The manner in which children are taught to read in England is in need of urgent reform, more than 250 experts have said in a letter to the government. According to research, led by academics from UCL, ...

The phonics argument appears to have been cut and dried, at least so far as the teaching of children in primary schools is concerned. In the world of adult literacy, however, the battle continues.

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