Part 4: Conclusion

The conclusions in Part 4 are:-

• Prepare children well for school, especially with their spoken
language and vocabulary.
• Learn about the teaching of reading and writing and the
advantages of synthetic phonics.
• Be aware of potential reading problems. Remember: 25% of
children find learning to read difficult.
• When your child starts bringing home books to read to you, look
carefully at how (s)he reads them.
• There is no doubt that in mainstream education virtually all the
children in need of support are able to overcome their problems
when synthetic phonics and decodable readers are used in
classroom teaching and intervention groups.