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Category Archives: Phonics
Heads oppose new punctuation and spelling test
Head teachers say they will disrupt a new spelling, grammar and punctuation test to be introduced in England’s primary schools next summer. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
Heads threaten reading test boycott
Head teachers could boycott a controversial new reading test for six-year-olds in England if it is used as “a stick to beat schools”. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
New Government Policy: five year olds to be tested
Osiris Educational Year 1 Phonics trainer Elizabeth Nonweiler joins Julian Worricker on Call You and Yours to discuss ‘is it right that five year olds will be tested on their ability to read?’ {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Phonics test: NUT may ballot on boycott
A teachers’ union has voted to ballot for a boycott of a new phonics reading test if its results are used in league tables. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Satisfy trainee teachers in phonics or face Ofsted
Poor feedback will trigger ‘focused’ inspection of PGCE courses According to coalition policy, phonics is the undisputed champion of methods used to teach children to read, and schools have been told in no uncertain terms that they must embrace it … Continue reading
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Literacy problems show Charles Dickens’s world persists – says Nick Gibb
Poor neighbourhoods in England are still beset by Victorian-era levels of illiteracy, the schools minister has claimed. In a speech on reading, Nick Gibb said that despite two centuries of technological and social revolution, there were “still shadows of Charles Dickens’s world … Continue reading
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Essex school gives pupils elocution lessons
The Telegraph reports that pupils at Cherry Tree Primary School, in Basildon, are being taught to ditch their Essex accents during weekly lessons from a private tutor. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Warning as schools ‘shun traditional reading methods’
Ministers warned that children were being left with poor reading skills because of a refusal to use phonics – the traditional system that breaks down words into individual sounds. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Thousands of schools sign up for phonics funding
Thousands of primary schools have already signed up to spend more than £7.7 million on new phonics products and training to drive up their pupils’ standards of reading, new Department for Education figures show today. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Two-thirds ‘fail new primary phonics reading check’
The test-run of a new primary school reading check suggests two-thirds of pupils are likely to fail it when it is introduced in England next year. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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School leaving age should be 14
School leaving age to be cut to 14, if former head of Ofsted, Sir Chris Woodhead, gets his way. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Reading check for six-year-olds rolled out – Why not check out our Phonics course?
Six-year-olds in England will face a new reading test next summer, after trials this year. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Year 1 Phonics Screening Check
Year 1 Phonics Screening Check {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Ofsted: Older pupils falter without phonics
Phonics is seldom being used outside primary schools to improve literacy – and older students are falling behind as a result, Ofsted has concluded. Stephen Exley reports in the TES. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Phonics at the top of the agenda
The Government announced this spring that it plans to introduce a phonics test for all six year olds. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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MPs: Financial incentives pushing schools towards phonics
A report by MPs suggests that schools are effectively being bribed into using officially approved phonics-based reading materials by the government, says Hannah Richardson of BBC News. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Literacy experts oppose new phonics test for 6-year-olds
Literacy experts have written to the education secretary, pleading with him to do a U-turn on his plan for phonics testing for six-year-olds, reports Warwick Mansell in The Guardian. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Research on babies may identify problems early
Technology that records babies’ eye movements could pinpoint problems early and help children in deprived areas to get targeted educational help. Lucy Tobin of The Guardian reports. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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‘Phonics alone is not the best way to develop reading skills for all children’
The role of phonics in teaching early-years children to read should be downgraded, according to a major Government-commissioned review, reports Helen Ward for The TES. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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Reading test for six-year-olds to include non-words
A number of made-up words such as “koob” or “zort” are to be included in the government’s planned new reading test for six-year-olds in England, reports BBC’s Hannah Richardson. {lang: ‘en-GB’}
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