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‘Phonics, decoding and whole-word recognition are a waste of time unless you then develop children as real readers’
Learning to decipher the squiggles on the page well enough to pass the key stage 1 Sats does not make you a reader, says author Susan Elkin
8 May 2016
‘Students are trained to think like circus lions, listlessly hopping through pointless hoops’
English literature courses have become exercises in box-ticking that leave no room to appreciate the “real meat” of a text, says former English teacher Susan Elkin
13 March 2016
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