Recent coverage highlights two complementary approaches to building early literacy: pretend play that fosters creativity, communication, and problem-solving, and structured phonics instruction ...

As the new alphabet song is going viral on TikTok, Rachel Platt tells PEOPLE why the changes are helping young learners Getty; teacherrachelsorsel/TikTok Rachel Platt made a TikTok responding to ...

Phonics tests for six year olds have started in schools in England. But what do parents need to know about this system for learning to read? Phonics has been promoted by the government as the best way ...

IF you ask Delilah Nutley and Neve Salmon how many sounds there are in the English language, you might be surprised by the answer. When they’re wearing their ‘thinking glasses’, St Hilda’s prep ...

From the much maligned key stage 1 screening test which asks children to sound out words such as "drall", "halp" and "snope", to the current embrace of the synthetic phonics model in UK schools, how ...

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Being able to read means being able to make meaning from printed words. At a functional level, we read to get the message – such as how many times per day to take our medication – but in a literate ...