E. D. Hirsch, Jr. is the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, including ...

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We know that many children are failing to learn to read in our nation’s classrooms. So it’s tempting to hope that tutoring by artificial intelligence could provide a solution. But how close are we to ...

Children can pass the phonics test with just a basic knowledge of the government's preferred system for learning to read, research suggests. Six-year-olds have to read aloud 20 real words and 20 ...

A minority of children are already beginning to read by the time they start school This video can not be played Durham University's Andrew Davis: "It's not reading for meaning" The interests of able ...

SPONSORED FEATURE: Explore effective strategies to support reading for four-to five-year-olds as they return to nursery and school. Online games and animations are linked to CBeebies. The current ...

Primary schools in England are being sent DVDs and booklets on how best to teach children to read. The Letters and Sounds packs - also available online - follow a report by former director of ...

Pupils of some public schools in Ondo State have held their audience in awe as they displayed their knowledge of jolly phonics. Jolly phonics is a synthetic project powered by the Universal Basic ...

E. D. Hirsch, Jr. is the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, including ...

The interests of able readers are being threatened by an insistence primary school pupils are taught to read using phonics, an academic has said. The Department for Education wants English schools to ...