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 ...

Government data has shown that in 2022-23, 30% of five-year-olds in England were not meeting the expected standard for literacy at the end of their reception year at school. Literacy was the area of ...

Learning to read can be stressful for parents and children alike. With so many complicated sounding terms used by educationalists and in the media when discussing reading - synthetic phonics, analytic ...

If, as I am about to, you venture into the debate about reading methods, it is wise to don a crash helmet. It is odd that one of the most rewarding parts of a child's education - the moment when they ...

Primary school pupils in Scotland who learned to read using synthetic phonics were ahead of English youngsters using a different method, a study has found. Researchers compared the literacy levels of ...