To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will inevitably and rightfully turn back to more “balanced” practices that ...

Two of the synthetic phonics programs, Letters and Sounds (L&S) and Early Reading Research (ERR), used by English primary schools to teach young children to read are equally effective overall.

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Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...