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

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 ...

There is no denying that success with sound and symbol relationships can help children decode words but there is a downside.” — Matthew Glavach, Ph.D. CLOVERDALE ...