At the end of year one, when they are five or six, all children at state schools in England must take a test called the phonics screening check. The check measures their ability to use synthetic ...

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

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Peterborough Telegraph, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Phonics is an important skill for young ...

It all starts with words – and what makes a word. And SA is smashing it so well that other states want to copy us. In the state’s third successive improvement, the 2021 phonics screening check results ...

It’s astonishing that much of what is written in opposition to the Phonics Screening Check is inaccurate, given that information about it is very easy to find. The UK government publishes a collection ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The controversial year 1 phonics screening check will be compulsory in NSW public schools from next year after the state's Education ...

The proportion of six year olds reaching the expected level in phonics screening check has increased by 19 percentage points from 2012 to 2015 - the equivalent of 120,000 more children meeting the ...

Children can learn to read using a range of methods Children can pass the phonics test with just a basic knowledge of the government's preferred system for learning to read, research suggests.

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