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| October 23, 2004 | COPYRIGHT 2004 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

(From Western Daily Press)

Sir - Teaching reading simply through phonics can narrow the achievement gap, according to a six-year study at St Michael's Church of England primary school in Stoke Gifford.

Teachers concentrated on the link between letters on the page and their sounds (just how my mother taught me to read) abandoning "whole word" techniques ("barking at words" as it has come to be known).

The improvement has been particularly marked in boys, with their preference for logic over rote. Around a third of those in the study reached level five in writing, compared to 9.5 per cent in the local authority and 11 per cent nationally.

The inference is that literacy could be further improved ...

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