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 ...

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 ...

A system of phonics which builds on a child's own language has been found to boost reading skills, academics say. A study of more than 900 primary school children taught using a system known as ...

Teachers will have access to greater resources to adopt a mandated phonics based approach to reading for prep to grade two students following a reported government deal with the teachers union. It’s ...

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 ...

The teaching of reading has always been controversial and methods such as phonics - which teaches children the constituent sounds of words - have been in and out of fashion. Phonics is an accepted ...

A report on how young children in England should be taught to read is expected to endorse a phonics-based approach. As the final touches are put to the government-sponsored Rose review, the women ...

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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 ...