The White Paper The Importance of Teaching, published by the DfE in November 2010, included a number of tendentious statements on the teaching of reading in the first years of formal schooling. In the interests of stimulating a more informed debate on this key issue, UKLA has put together a set of Fact Cards on centrally important topics. Each of these cards contains statements of fact supported by reputable research evidence. Here we present the cards in an easily printable A4 format, to provide useful material for interviews with MPs and other key decision-makers in education.