A group of leading early years specialists has launched a campaign to urge practitioners and parents to fight Government plans to adopt synthetic phonics for teaching children to read in reception ...
Learn Something New Every Day: Early Years Phonics Annette is from Phonics Bear, who teach early years phonics for children aged 2-5. Make sure your child has their favourite teddy and some dough with ...
Phonics tests for six year olds have started in schools in England. But what do parents need to know about this system for learning to read? Phonics has been promoted by the government as the best way ...
The government has announced an updated Teaching and Learning Model for all state schools, to be implemented from next year, which focuses on what’s known as “explicit teaching”, with students from ...
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 ...
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