Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

In this video I share one of my favorite free resources for teaching phonics and spelling rules. I walk you through the Mr Spelling YouTube channel and show a few clips of his rap songs on vowel teams ...

Experts have released robust research to show that phonics should be taught hand-in-hand with reading and writing to encourage true literacy and a love of reading, not through narrow synthetic phonics ...