E. D. Hirsch, Jr. is the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, including ...

Children can pass the phonics test with just a basic knowledge of the government's preferred system for learning to read, research suggests. Six-year-olds have to read aloud 20 real words and 20 ...

A minority of children are already beginning to read by the time they start school This video can not be played Durham University's Andrew Davis: "It's not reading for meaning" The interests of able ...

This week, children in key stage one across the country will have been completing the government's new phonics check for the first time. They will sit down with their teacher and read through a list ...

SPONSORED FEATURE: Explore effective strategies to support reading for four-to five-year-olds as they return to nursery and school. Online games and animations are linked to CBeebies. The current ...

Phonics should be taught by all early years providers and schools and children's progress in developing phonic knowledge and skills should be regularly assessed, according to a new report from Ofsted.

Primary schools in England are being sent DVDs and booklets on how best to teach children to read. The Letters and Sounds packs - also available online - follow a report by former director of ...

E. D. Hirsch, Jr. is the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, including ...

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 ...