The 700-student school in Melbourne’s south-east says teaching phonics helped make it the state’s best performing government school on NAPLAN scores last year, with an average score of 580.2.

Huge variety of activities, games and e-books cover different areas of literacy (e.g. phonics, sight words, spelling, comprehension) and promote a sustained interest in books for kids of all ages.

Up to 100 Australian primary schools will get coaching in how to teach phonics in the early years, in an 18-month program set to start in term three. ‘No student left behind’: phonics push for ...

They invariably use a method that involves direct, explicit, systematic phonics. This is the inexplicably politicised way of teaching children that letters in our alphabet are associated with sounds.

Each year, year 1 students in public schools sit a mandatory 40-question phonics assessment, where they are tested on their ability to blend and sound out letters and combinations.

Each year, year 1 students in public schools sit a mandatory 40-question phonics assessment, where they are tested on their ability to blend and sound out letters and combinations.

The controversial year 1 phonics screening check will be compulsory in NSW public schools from next year after the state's Education Minister declared the reading wars were over and phonics had won.

Each year, year 1 students in public schools sit a mandatory 40-question phonics assessment, where they are tested on their ability to blend and sound out letters and combinations.

Phonics — explicit literacy teaching focusing on the sounds in words — is being introduced into the Victorian curriculum ...

Phonics testing and what it means for your child. A $10.8 million government program that includes voluntary phonics testing in Year 1 is already mandatory in some states.