Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...

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 ...

Arguments about the best way to Teach children to read can be intense – they've even been described as“the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. It’s Wednesday morning at Chelsea Primary, a state school in Melbourne’s south-eastern sandbelt, and these questions are being put at ...

The Education ministry has signed a Memorandum of Understand (MOU) with Chris Jolly, the originator of Jolly Phonics to incorporate the teaching method in basic schools across the country. Addressing ...