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Isolated phonics lessons aren’t working: here’s a better way to teach young children to read and write

By Dominic Wyse, Professor of Early Childhood and Primary Education, UCL

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 teaching how phonemes – the smallest sounds in the words of oral language – are represented by letters. In England the type of phonics teaching is best described as “narrow synthetic…

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