Phonics: Practice, Research and Policy

At a time when the government is urging English schools to implement a particular approach to the teaching of phonics, this book offers teachers and student teachers a practical, informed and balanced overview on the role of phonics in learning to read. With contributions from leading literacy experts the book includes chapters on

• How children learn to read and how phonics helps
• Classroom approaches to phonics teaching
• Involving parents and carers
• Speaking and phonological awareness
• Spelling links
• Responses to the Rose Review on Early Reading
• Suggestions for staff development

It provides the information needed to make informed professional judgements in this controversial area.