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.

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.

When children are taught to read and write though phonics they have to remember many exceptions, so-called 'sight words'. In addition, the linguist David Crystal estimated that almost half of all ...

From the very beginning, children need to train their brains to recognize English sounds. If they do not recognize the sound, they won't hear what they need to. “As you read a book word by word and ...

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long. Through ...

Chris Jolly likes travelling. Which is just as well, as the Briton often finds himself setting off to Africa, the Bahamas, and other far-flung destinations as the managing director of Jolly Learning.

Government data has shown that in 2022-23, 30% of five-year-olds in England were not meeting the expected standard for literacy at the end of their reception year at school. Literacy was the area of ...

Children are tested at the age of five or six More children have passed the new phonics reading test for England's five- and six-year-olds this year. More than two-thirds (69%) of pupils in state ...

More children are meeting the expected standard in the "phonics check" for six-year-olds in England, the government says. Some 74% passed the test in 2014, up from 58% in 2012, new data suggests.

More children have passed the new phonics reading test for England's five- and six-year-olds this year. More than two-thirds (69%) of pupils in state schools reached the expected level - up from 58% ...