CEP News: i-Independent (Print): How phonics took over for teaching children to read in primary schools

i-Independent (Print):
How phonics took over for teaching children to read in primary schools

24 July 2019

Last year research by academics at the LSE's Centre for Economic Performance found that phonics improved children's reading. Sandra McNally, one of the authors, notes that, whereas the boost faded with time for better-off children, who would have eventually learned to read well anyway, it persisted for poor readers and those without English as a first language.

Changing How Literacy Is Taught: Evidence on Synthetic Phonics, Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, Martina Viarengo. AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL: ECONOMIC POLICY VOL. 10, NO. 2, MAY 2018, (pp. 217-41).

i-Independent (Print):How phonics took over for teaching children to read in primary schools

i-Independent (Print):
How phonics took over for teaching children to read in primary schools