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 ...

It all starts with words – and what makes a word. And SA is smashing it so well that other states want to copy us. In the state’s third successive improvement, the 2021 phonics screening check results ...

Thank you for signing up! Did you know with an ad-lite subscription to Peterborough Telegraph, you get 70% fewer ads while viewing the news that matters to you. Phonics is an important skill for young ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.

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 ...

A HEAD TEACHERS union has urged the Government to scrap its controversial phonics test after the Department for Education’s own assessment showed the majority of teachers believed it had not provided ...

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 ...

This article was originally published in EdSource. Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be officially retired and replaced with a ...

Lorraine Hammond is the President of Learning Difficulties Australia. Education Minister Simon Birmingham has announced that all Australian six-year-olds will soon be required to do a phonics test.

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