Nursery World - Trainers alter courses to accommodate phonics

Trainee teachers are getting better preparation from course providers on how to teach early reading since the publication of the Rose Review, according to new research by Ofsted.

A survey of 20 teacher-training providers found that all had alteredcentral parts of their courses since last September, when systematicphonics was added to the national curriculum.

The changes followed recommendations made in the Rose Review in 2006,which said children should be taught to read primarily with systematicsynthetic phonics by the age of five.

However, the report said some training courses did not give teachersenough information on how to assess children's phonics skills, whichcould prevent them from intervening before children fall behind.

Some courses were also failing to highlight the links between earlyreading and writing, and not all providers were arranging suitableopportunities for trainees to observe high-quality phonics teaching.

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