The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government agencies to investigate curriculum, teacher standards, spelling and the orientation and education of ...

A PRIMARY school in Blackburn is named among the top 3% of schools in England for performance in phonics tests. All pupils from the Olive School, on Meins Road who took part in the Year 1 phonics ...

The UK government will introduce a mandatory reading test for Year 8 students to address declining literacy rates.

Year 8 students will soon be required to take a reading test so that ‘everyone can thrive’ – but not everyone is convinced ...

The Education Secretary will set an ambition for 90% of pupils to reach the expected standard in phonics by the end of year 1. Bridget Phillipson will set out the core tenets of the Government’s ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from SA News. Followed categories will be added to My News. Statewide tests recorded 63 per cent of the nearly 14,000 students who took part met or exceeded the ...

Pamela Snow receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Anne Castles receives funding from the ARC and the NHMRC. Kevin Wheldall has previously received research funding from various ...

While not mandatory, the law provides support for phonics — focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out — to ...