The new phonics tests for six-year-olds in England is successfully identifying children who struggle to read, but is no more informative than existing teacher assessment, research suggests. The ...

Education Minister Simon Birmingham released a report today recommending that all Year 1 students in Australia complete a phonics test. The panel responsible for the report has recommended that ...

In the May budget, the federal government allocated money to buy England’s phonic screening test for six-year-olds in Year 1. The screening test, introduced in England in 2012, tests students at the ...

YEAR 1 students at state schools will be required to undergo a compulsory phonic test after a trial revealed alarming results in tests designed to measure their grasp of simple letter combinations.

In debating whether a pass rate of 60% on the controversial phonics test for six-year-olds is good enough, and whether the test truly measures reading ability or merely the capacity to decode ...

But as teaching philosophies fall in and out of favour, it can be confusing when focus falls on an unfamiliar method. Phonics is the new in vogue technique, which means teaching the relationship ...

The improved screening test results are very welcome and reflect great credit on the previous government, which introduced a strong emphasis on the teaching of systematic synthetic phonics (SSP). The ...

John Gardner said phonics tests in year 1 – and an increased emphasis on teaching the skill in primary schools – was helping drive up students’ NAPLAN results in their first year of sitting the test.

Fewer than six out of 10 pupils, 58%, passed the controversial new national phonics reading test in England, official statistics show. The test checks six-year-olds' ability to read aloud a mixture of ...

YEAR 1 students at state schools will be required to undergo a compulsory phonic test after a trial revealed alarming results in tests designed to measure their grasp of simple letter combinations.