We found many of the arguments in Helen Bromley's phonics feature (Special report, 16 June) to be ill-informed and unsubstantiated. The Clackmannanshire study, for example, is only one small part of ...
Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...