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Previously children were taught using a 'look and say' method, where they were shown words until they could regonise them. However, teaching reading using sounds rather than individual letters has been... Read more...
05 December 2017
Other structured programmes are also showing success with under-performing pupils. A large-scale study by the LSE on synthetic phonics lessons found that while they did not improve the reading score of the ave... Read more...
Evidence from a recent report by Stephen Machin and his colleagues at the London School of Economics, entitled “Teaching to Teach” Literacy, shows that synthetic phonics instruction has little to n... Read more...
04 October 2017