Two-thirds ‘fail new primary phonics reading check’
The BBC news website has written an article about the new reading test for primary school children the government would like to introduce.
Government statistics show just 32% of the six-year-olds in 300 schools who took the test last summer passed it.
You can read the full article at : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-16091737
Well that does not surprise me. When are the government going to learn that not all children learn by using phonics. How is a five or six year old expected to know what a word a word like ‘vap’ and ‘vog is. Learning to read is not about just sounding words out, it’s about discovering the love of reading and learning how to read, not sounding out a lot of words.
That means the government has just labelled a whole raft of 5 and 6 year olds as failures. Well done. That is really going to do a lot for their confidence.
