"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long. Through ...

More than 45,000 Queensland Year 1 students will undergo compulsory phonics testing from later this term. Here’s how it will work. The Courier-Mail enlisted the Department of Education to explain ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in England can “decode” words – has been raised to 90%. This increase, ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government and non-government organisations to research in the areas of curriculum, refugee education, teacher ...

A teachers' union has voted to ballot for a boycott of a new phonics reading test if its results are used in league tables. The new "phonics check" for five and six-year-olds is due to begin in ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A mandatory phonics test introduced in Victoria this year to screen the reading ability of all grade 1 students may have too few words ...

The interests of able readers are being threatened by an insistence primary school pupils are taught to read using phonics, an academic has said. The Department for Education wants English schools to ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government agencies to investigate curriculum, teacher standards, spelling and the orientation and education of ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from NSW. Followed categories will be added to My News. Three years after the state introduced the controversial phonics test to combat the state’s reading crisis, NSW ...