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Phonics-only approach is rejected
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
2 April 2008
Teachers have been urged to reject Government guidance that children should be taught to read using phonics, arguing that the primary curriculum is too narrow and rigid.
At its annual conference in Manchester, the National Union of Teachers voted for the union to provide its members with alternative guidance to its members featuring a range of methods for teaching reading besides the Government's 'Letters and Sounds' approach. The union also said that children are being put under 'intolerable' pressure by the current testing and assessment system and called for homework at primary school level to be scrapped. It also called...
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