"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long. Through ...

At the end of year one, when they are five or six, all children at state schools in England must take a test called the phonics screening check. The check measures their ability to use synthetic ...

More than 45,000 Queensland Year 1 students will undergo compulsory phonics testing from later this term. Here’s how it will work. The Courier-Mail enlisted the Department of Education to explain ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government and non-government organisations to research in the areas of curriculum, refugee education, teacher ...

Pamela Snow receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Anne Castles receives funding from the ARC and the NHMRC. Kevin Wheldall has previously received research funding from various ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

A teachers' union has voted to ballot for a boycott of a new phonics reading test if its results are used in league tables. The new "phonics check" for five and six-year-olds is due to begin in ...

CHILDREN in Dorset who do not speak English as a first language are more likely to pass important Year 1 reading tests than native speakers, figures reveal. Department for Education data shows the ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News. Three years after the state introduced the controversial phonics test to combat the state’s reading crisis, NSW ...