Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

When it comes to teaching, educators can move beyond memorization and equip students with the tools they need for fluent, confident reading.

MPS is equipping students with early literacy skills and confidence to tackle increasingly complex reading and writing tasks, ...

As your child approaches the start of primary school, it is a good idea to play games that help with their understandings of word sounds. Great ideas for these include exploring rhymes and words that ...

The interests of able readers are being threatened by an insistence primary school pupils are taught to read using phonics, an academic has said. The Department for Education wants English schools to ...

New research suggests that relying on phonics, a method of learning where an individual sounds out words, helps students to learn reading faster when compared with the whole-language technique, which ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from state and federal funding bodies for projects investigating curriculum, teacher standards and the teaching of English ...

Children are tested at the age of five or six More children have passed the new phonics reading test for England's five- and six-year-olds this year. More than two-thirds (69%) of pupils in state ...