A NEW report suggests a back-to-basics approach to teaching children reading and writing skills could be the most effective. A scientific study analysing phonics instruction in schools has shown ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

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 ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Victoria. Followed categories will be added to My News. The government has announced an updated Teaching and Learning Model for all state schools, to be ...

Catholic schools are hooked on phonics. Over the decades — as fads in reading instruction have come and gone — Baltimore-area Catholic schools, like many other parochial schools across the nation, ...

The government has promised a review of teaching reading in England's primary schools, particularly looking at a method called "synthetic phonics". But what exactly is it? Most schools in England ...

Last Saturday Michael Gove, in his speech to the Policy Exchange think tank, asked how anyone can defend an education system where “more than a fifth of children [leave] primary school without having ...

Traditional teaching methods championed by Government do not improve children's reading skills, a landmark London School of Economics (LSE) study shows. Teaching children in a way in which words are ...