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Literacy: Phonics success revealed
By Kay Smith,
Nursery World,
22 November 2007
A multi-strand literacy programme with early years phonics teaching at its core has eradicated illiteracy among schoolchildren in one local authority area in Scotland, according to the final results of a ten-year study released by West Dunbartonshire Council this week.
The findings were seized on by the Conservatives in Westminster, who want to extend the use of synthetic phonics, as they unveiled proposals for all six-year-olds in the UK to sit a national reading test. A series of investigations involving over 60,000 pupils, including all of West Dunbartonshire's 23 nurseries and 35 primary schools, found that the level of pupils leaving secondary school without...
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