The Welsh government said recent results showed standards were improving and the education secretary had been "clear that ...

Another systematic review found that integrating phonics teaching with comprehension teaching resulted in the best impact on children’s reading. As part of our research we carried out a new analysis ...

Next is the decision about whether or not phonics should be taught systematically. This recent research found that systematic phonics teaching is linked to better progress in reading accuracy, but ...

Education Minister Ben Carroll announced that from next year every student in prep to grade 2 will be taught to read through a systematic synthetic phonics approach.

A study of 300 Scottish primary school pupils suggests that those taught with explicit, systematic phonics—the letters and letter sounds that make up words—learn to read more quickly than ...

Systematic synthetic phonics is a structured approach explicitly teaching the relationship between sounds and letters to read words.

The DfE insists synthetic phonics is the best way to teach reading. The teaching method encourages children to sound out words rather than recognising the whole word and reading it for meaning.

The International Literacy Association endorsed systematic, explicit phonics as a key element of early reading instruction.

Catholic schools across Canberra and southern NSW will implement evidence-backed phonics teaching from next year as part of a system-wide push to improve students’ literacy outcomes.

When the cues to phonics principles are only presented informally while reading stories, too many children fail to establish and maintain the connections that systematic teaching achieves.