The Independent review of the teaching of early reading was an influential report by Sir Jim Rose, former HMI director of inspection at
Ofsted, into the teaching of reading in
primary schools in England.
Another report was published in April 2009, with the name Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum: Final Report, after additional evidence was received from the
Cambridge Primary Review.
Both reports recommended that high quality
systematic phonics "should be taught as the prime approach in learning to decode (to read) and encode (to write/spell) print". Phonics should be taught systematically and discretely, however, it should be set within a "broad and rich" "multisensory" curriculum. The reports stressed the importance of language development (including speaking and listening). The reports also recommended that the "searchlights" model of reading should be replaced with the
simple view of reading.
See also
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The National Strategies
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Phonics
Phonics is a method for teaching people how to read and write an alphabetic language (such as English, Arabic or Russian). It is done by demonstrating the relationship between the sounds of the spoken language (phonemes), and the letters or g ...
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Primary National Strategy
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Reading
Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of letters, symbols, etc., especially by sight or touch.
For educators and researchers, reading is a multifaceted process involving such areas as word recognition, orthography (spelling ...
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Synthetic phonics
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References
2006 in England
2006 in British politics
Education in England
Learning to read
Reading (process)
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