Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Let's reinvent the wheel, shall we? Let's ignore research and well-tested outcomes. Because we're sure we can come up with something ...

In this episode we will discuss using context to guess the meaning of unfamiliar words. Plus look at how the verb to be is used to link subjects and their complements. Hello. I’m Margot Politis.

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

But as teaching philosophies fall in and out of favour, it can be confusing when focus falls on an unfamiliar method. Phonics is the new in vogue technique, which means teaching the relationship ...

Inspired by a “student-centred” approach to learning — in line with the “constructivism” philosophy of education woven through her university course — she set about creating an aesthetically pleasing ...

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 ...

In 2018, just 43 per cent of Year 1 students met the expected achievement level, rising to 52 per cent in 2019. This year, 63 per cent of state school students demonstrated phonics skills at the ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been intense ...

Amy-Louise Peach from Little Learners explores phonics and how you can help your child practice at home. You may have heard about phonics at a parents’ evening, or even from your own child on the walk ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. We live in a house full of books and we read to our son every day – stories, news, Wikipedia, everything. Despite his enthusiasm for ...