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Brooks, Greg; Beard, Roger; Ampaw-Farr, Jaz – Research Papers in Education, 2021
From 2006 the British government strongly favoured synthetic phonics as the principal approach for the teaching of initial literacy in state-funded primary schools in England, and since 2010 has made it mandatory. In 2007-2013 just over 100 commercially published phonics schemes were available, and in that same period the government maintained a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English, Phonics, Basal Reading
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Gibson, Howard; England, Jennifer – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2016
The paper highlights problems surrounding the Year 1 Phonics Screening Check that has accompanied the legislative framework for synthetic phonics in English primary schools. It investigates the inclusion of pseudowords and raises questions regarding their generation and categorization, the rationale for their inclusion and the assumption that the…
Descriptors: Phonics, Elementary School Students, Reading Skills, Screening Tests