The Big Question: What is the best way to teach reading - and should children be tested at six?

Rating: 16
Site summary:
Between 1997 and 2000 systematic phonics produced remarkable results. The number of 11-year-olds achieving level 4 - able to read - shot up from 48 to 75 per cent. But the problem is that a hard core of young people get left behind, still unable to read when they start secondary school.
We chose this site because it discusses some controversial issues involving the governmental mandates of how reading is taught and how this is working in our present system.
http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/big-question/the-big-question-what-is-the-best-way-to-teach-reading--and-should-children-be-tested-at-six-764523.html