Reading rights and wrongs
Alan Davies
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
By Alan Davies, educational psychologist and author of TeachingTHRASS This month, education secretary Ruth Kelly stated on Sky News, 'We should have a systematic approach to teaching synthetic phonics, that should be taught first and foremost to all children, certainly by the age of five and then, yes, other strategies should come in after that to help and support those readers for whom a variety of methods is appropriate.'
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