Opinion: Editor's View - Nursery World is offering timely advice on teaching with phonics

Nursery World, 19 June 2008

The Letters and Sounds programme of synthetic phonics, introduced following the Rose Review of how children are taught to read, is potentially a troublesome scheme for early years practitioners to work with.

It links in with the most controversial early learning goals in the Early Years Foundation Stage. And its very structured nature seems at odds with the child-initiated, play-based approach of the EYFS. Can the two run in tandem without compromise? On the basis that Letters and Sounds is here, and early years professionals have to work with it, we've commissioned a three-part series giving expert advice on how...

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