To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

Phonics Screening Check, with more than 75% of pupils from FS2 to Year 2 working at or above year-group expectations ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called “systematic ...