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Direct linkHodgson, John – FORUM: for promoting 3-19 comprehensive education, 2018
Ofsted's 2017 review of the Reception year curriculum, Bold Beginnings, asserts that reading is the core purpose of the Reception year, and advocates 'systematic synthetic phonics' as the teaching method. This article challenges this precept by reference to recent research into the nature of reading, the way children learn in the Reception class…
Descriptors: Elementary School Curriculum, Reading Instruction, Phonics, Teaching Methods
Glazzard, Jonathan – English in Education, 2017
This narrative literature review evaluates the effectiveness of synthetic phonics in comparison with analytic phonics. It presents the key research findings and offers a critical appraisal of this research. Primary schools have developed a variety of assessment processes which assess pupils' knowledge and skills in synthetic phonics. It is through…
Descriptors: Phonics, Elementary School Students, Evaluation Methods, Student Evaluation
Blow, David; Myers, Helen – Language Learning Journal, 2022
In the high-stakes accountability English educational system, decisions made by government and agencies about curriculum, pedagogy and assessment drive school planning and actions. This paper analyses the drivers for the recent change to French German and Spanish GCSEs and highlights particular areas of the new specification which may damage the…
Descriptors: French, German, Spanish, Second Language Learning
Bradbury, Alice – Oxford Review of Education, 2014
Since coming to power in 2010, the UK Coalition government in power has implemented a range of reforms in relation to assessment at all stages of education in England. This paper focuses on two assessment reforms relating to children aged five and six years old, and considers their evolution from manifesto commitments to practice in classrooms.…
Descriptors: Elections, Accountability, Elementary Schools, Educational Policy
Download full textNational Literacy Trust, 2009
In December 2008, 35 professionals from research, policy, practice and the media participated in an online survey about a range of key literacy issues. This is the second time that this annual survey has been carried out in the in UK. Participants were asked to indicate whether a certain topic was "hot" (i.e. currently a topic of debate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Surveys, Computer Mediated Communication, Literacy
Wyse, Dominic; Styles, Morag – Literacy, 2007
The Rose Report, commissioned by the Secretary of State for Education for England, recommended in March 2006 that early reading instruction must include synthetic phonics. This paper evaluates the extent to which research evidence supports this recommendation. In particular, a review of international research into the teaching of early reading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Reading, Phonics, National Curriculum
