PURPLE WIZARD: That’s the letter ‘N’, it makes the ‘n’ sound. N… n, nose! ORANGE WIZARD: Oh! N… n, nails. ORANGE WIZARD: Now we know lots more letters. PURPLE WIZARD: And the sounds they make. ORANGE ...

The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...

PURPLE WIZARD: Oh, what is this thing? ORANGE WIZARD: That’s the letter ‘s’. It makes the ‘s’ sound. Join the phonics wizards and learn all about the sounds ‘s’, ‘a’, ‘t’ and ‘p’.

More than 45,000 Queensland Year 1 students will undergo compulsory phonics testing from later this term. Here’s how it will work. The Courier-Mail enlisted the Department of Education to explain ...