The basic Square Panda Phonics Play-set costs $99, and the company will offer optional add-on services as well, including tutoring, a subscription plan with more games and additional learning tools.

Phonics teaching covers first the most common relationships between letters and sounds as they can be used to read many new words. Then it covers some of the less frequent relationships.

Primary schools will be required by law to teach children to read using a controversial back-to-basics method known as "synthetic phonics", the Government announced today.

Phonics is taught using special “decodable books”, rather than real books. Aspects such as comprehension, engaging with real books, and writing activities, are all to be taught in different ...

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A quarter of schools are still not using back-to-basics methods to teach reading, according to ministers. Synthetic phonics has been on the national curriculum since 2006 and all schools have had ...

More information: Dominic Wyse et al, The Balancing Act: An Evidence-Based Approach to Teaching Phonics, Reading and Writing, Literacy (2024). DOI: 10.4324/9781003442134 ...

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Education Minister Dan Tehan will push universities to overhaul their teacher training courses to ensure that graduates learn how to teach children to read and write using the phonics method, amid ...