1. A lesson in teaching reading

... Synthetic phonics is extremely successful when taught by well-trained teachers and TAs. Many schools are now making sure every TA and teacher, including the headteacher, knows how to teach a child to read. ...

2. Budget cut could aid reading

... programmes such as Reading Recovery which it states are based on a lower quality of evidence than synthetic phonics. According to Geraldine Carter, committee member of the RRF, teachers are thoroughly ...

3. Literacy in the Caribbean

... Elizabeth Nonweiler, an independent reading consultant, took up the challenge of setting up a synthetic phonics project on the islands and visited in June that year. Shortly before retiring from Reception ...

4. No joined-up thinking

... in his historic report (Rose Report, March 2006). As far as most people are aware, the government has now changed its official guidance for reading instruction to systematic synthetic phonics, in the ...