Announcing the move last week, minister for education and young people Cathy Jamieson said, 'The report on synthetic phonics finds that excellent results have been achieved in raising the reading and language skills of our youngest citizens. The report will be sent to every primary school in Scotland for teachers to consider whether the approach would benefit their pupils.'
The report, Accelerating Reading and Spelling with Synthetic Phonics: A Five Year Follow Up, published as part of the Scottish Executive's Insight series, compares the progress made by children who have been taught synthetic or analytic phonics between Primary One and Five.
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