Description: Hooked on Phonics is an Android app that’s from the same people behind well, Hooked on Phonics. The team that started back in the late-eighties now has excellent mobile apps for both ...

A report on how young children in England should be taught to read is expected to endorse a phonics-based approach. As the final touches are put to the government-sponsored Rose review, the women ...

In 1955, Rudolph Flesch wrote a simple book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, in which he pointed out that education was failing simply because we were no longer teaching reading by using phonics. It seems no ...

For decades there have been ongoing conversations, here and across the world, on the best way to teach children to read. There is a myriad of systems, research insights and at times, conflicting ...

A child’s individual differences, skills and experience matter a lot in the learning process, and learning to read is no exception. That’s why new legislation based on the erroneous assumption that ...

The reality, however, is that it’s simplistic to merely blame the pandemic. The erosion of English reading skills, particularly in public schools, started decades ago with a long-simmering war on ...

If students don’t learn how to read in school, not much else that happens there is going to matter. This might be a harsh way of putting it, but it’s the truth. Being unable to read makes it nearly ...