Aldeman: Having students read a list of 40 words — some real, some not — and pass with an 80 or better has driven dramatic increases in performance.

At the end of year one, when they are five or six, all children at state schools in England must take a test called the phonics screening check. The check measures their ability to use synthetic ...

So why don’t we test for it in the United States? England does. Starting in 2012, the Brits started giving a phonics check to all 6-year-olds. At the end of their first year of school ...

Victorian state school grade one students will sit a new 10-minute literacy assessment under the state's move to phonics teaching for reading, which experts say will improve early intervention for ...

Orchard Manor School, in Dawlish, said a phonics screening check required non-verbal children to say the letter sounds aloud - which was not possible. The school has adapted tests, but the results ...