Michael Rosen's letter on synthetic phonics (March 24) is straight out of the reading wars. Well, I do not "know full well" that the research evidence is unreliable. First, in comparing like with like ...

Education ministers have endorsed a stronger focus on phonics in learning to read but an expert is worried this won't help older students who struggle. Education ministers have endorsed a stronger ...

England’s education secretary has endorsed a plan that would mandate a more direct method of teaching phonics. Read the British consultant’s report on literacy instruction. Ruth Kelly, who took over ...

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 ...

England's schools are being told to change the way they teach children to read, with the government calling for greater use of a system called synthetic phonics. At the moment, guidance is that ...