Flexible Phonics – be involved in an EEF-funded project
Professor Robert Savage at the Institute of Education, UCL and the Flexible Phonics team are seeking London primary schools (Reception classes) to take part in an innovative EEF funded phonics programme.
Flexible Phonics fits around existing phonics programmes, providing children with more strategies to flexibly read all words, including exception words that break phonic rules. A version of the programme has already been tested in Canada and has been shown to improve literacy by the equivalent of 2-3 additional months’ progress.
Schools who sign-up will be randomly assigned to the flexible phonics group or a control group as part of a randomised control trial. Those who take part in the flexible phonics programme will receive 1.5 days training (in Winter 2020), a delivery manual and £400 of quality children’s books. Control schools will receive £1000 and will carry out their teaching as usual.
There are limited places for this project.
Sign up by emailing flexiblephonics@ucl.ac.uk
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