The UK: Made it mandatory that all primary schools teach early reading and spelling with synthetic phonics by 2007.   Read the Rose Report: Independent Review of the Teaching of Early Reading
	Australia:   Recommended "an early and systematic emphasis on the explicit teaching of phonics". Read the report: The National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy.   The draft Australian National Curriculum stipulates: phonics should be taught from kindergarten through to year two and that the sequence works through from the simple to the complex - which is just what synthetic phonics does!
	The US: Researched every major method to teach children how to read and concluded: “systematic phonics instruction produces significant benefits for students in kindergarten through 6th grade and for children having difficulty learning to read”   Read the report: National Reading Panel Findings

These reports all consistently found that synthetic phonics is…

• Fast… A child will learn 30 phonemes (sounds) in only 16 weeks, and can read and spell over 40 words in the very first week!
   
• Efficient… It shows improvements for every child. This has certainly been the case for Get Reading Right – schools using the programme have seen literacy rates sky rocket go from 80% to nearly 100%.
   
• Effective… Even with groups who are traditionally more likely to find reading difficult (boys, English as a Second Language learners and children with special education needs) the results are still first-rate.
   

Read what teachers have to say about the Get Reading Right synthetic phonics programme.