Teaching children how to read: what works? 📚🍎
Researchers from IOE and @ljmuofficial.bsky.social say a more flexible approach is needed, one underpinned by children’s motivation for reading and the use of real books.
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www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/dec/...
Synthetic phonics, where children are taught to pronounce sounds in isolation before putting them together to form words, isn’t working for many struggling young readers, a study led by UCL has found.
