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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Every grade 1 student in the state school system next year will have their reading ability tested through a new phonics screening check ...

Samantha Hill, assistant head at Orchard Manor School, is calling for more suitable ways for children who cannot speak to have their reading ability tested A special school in Devon is petitioning the ...

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 ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government agencies to investigate curriculum, teacher standards, spelling and the orientation and education of ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A mandatory phonics test introduced in Victoria this year to screen the reading ability of all grade 1 students may have too few words ...