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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The controversial year 1 phonics screening check will be compulsory in NSW public schools from next year after the state's Education ...

The Dyslexia Evidence-Based (DEB) community welcomes the introduction of the phonics check. The first tool of its kind in New Zealand to identify children struggling to read, including those with ...

Of course, knowing phonics is not the only element of reading but it is an essential subskill. This basic principle is irrefutable and to most people, obvious, but it is a cause of major controversy ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One in three NSW public primary schools have signed up to an August trial of the controversial year 1 phonics screening check, in a sign ...

Senior Research Fellow, The Centre for Independent Studies; Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University Jennifer Buckingham and Kevin Wheldall ...