Teachers unions oppose the reintroduction of phonics in reading education, despite evidence of its effectiveness compared to ...

The first key skill in phonics is to learn the letters ... and the simple ‘d’ sound. The common exception words for each stage are: Is your child going back to school starting school for ...

If a word is unfamiliar it can be skipped, guessed at, or picked up from context. Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music ...

From being able to recognise different sounds all around them, to sounding out whole words, phonics is where a child ... on it has been placed on a tap, ‘d’ on a door, ‘b’ on a book ...