How might a Year 7 teacher run a science class with students who have the reading proficiency of six-year-olds? How do Year 9 English or Geography teachers work through the curriculum when they have ...

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

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 ...

Two of the synthetic phonics programs, Letters and Sounds (L&S) and Early Reading Research (ERR), used by English primary schools to teach young children to read are equally effective overall.

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The results of a switch to mandated phonics in public schools are unlikely to show themselves for two to three years, with patience and ...