NALDIC held its virtual 28th conference in November 2020. The keynote speakers were interesting, but the presenter who offered an enormous amount of practical advice was a teacher from Cockburn John Charles Academy, Leeds. Anna shared her school’s approach to...
A drive to raise literacy standards in the UK during the past 20 years has led to a proliferation of synthetic phonics schemes. Although most teachers would agree that learning to sound out words is only one practice in a range of skills necessary for children to read...