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The THRASS phonics programme, pioneered by British Educational Psychologist Alan Davies, has already enjoyed considerable success in many parts of Africa and is being welcomed as heralding the start of a new era in the teaching of English in Africa. Now, with the help of USAID, and following the recent THRASS Accredited Certificate course in Okahandja, THRASS could soon be implemented in every school in Namibia.

From The Age, February 13, 2006

The Teaching Reading report championed the phonics method.

TEACHERS often complained to the national reading inquiry that they did not know how to teach phonics effectively, according to the inquiry's chairman, Dr Ken Rowe.

From The Australian, September 17, 2007

TEENAGERS could be forgiven for misspelling words such as subterranean and miscellaneous, but what about primary school teachers?

A spelling test of about 40 Victorian teachers, conducted in April this year, provides no grounds for confidence. Not one of the teachers could correctly spell all 11 words, ranging in difficulty from substitute to adolescence.

The test was set at the level expected of 14-year-olds but the average score among the 39 teachers was just seven correctly spelled words.

(PRWEB) September 28, 2007 -- THRASS UK, based in Chester, England, and supported by Barclays, has just entered into a five-year partnership with South Africa's Absa Bank, a member of the Barclays Group, to deliver the TalkTogether Literacy Project in schools and universities across South Africa. The primary aim of the Project is to improve literacy standards across the country, and hundreds of student teachers will be trained in the first year alone in order to achieve this.

Children taught synthetic phonics can see their reading improve in just two weeks

From the Daily Mail (UK) 5th Sept 2007

Children who struggle with reading can make dramatic progress in just a fortnight when they are given traditional lessons, a report reveals today.

The study by a think-tank showed that primary school pupils increased their reading ages by nearly two years in as many weeks when they were given intensive "synthetic phonics" lessons.

Hooked on Phonics found success in late-night infomercials in the 1990s, selling up to $100 million a year of packaged materials that were used to help teach children how to read.

Then the once-successful marketing formula was scrapped when Baltimore's Educate Inc. bought the struggling brand in 2005 and turned it into a retail product sold at the likes of Target, Wal-Mart and Costco.

Now, Hooked on Phonics is returning to its TV roots by promoting its products on airwaves around the world.

From the Deccan Herald, Bangalore, India, September 27, 2007

Teaching phonics enhances the learning of children and saves the millions spent on remedial teaching. Nearly all todays special needs are in reading. Attainment will increase and the misery attached to being unable to read will shrink if we start by teaching reading the phonic way.

Blend Phonics is an easy, single-letter phonics technique for teaching reading to student of any age which will prevent the development of whole-word dyslexia in beginning students and remediate whole-word dyslexia in older students.

The Phonics Page has information about improving reading and spelling with phonics. Free phonics lessons and spelling lessons for adults and children in the 2nd grade and older are provided in QuickTime movie format. A movie explaining phonics, literacy statistics, and the need for phonics is also provided, along with written instructions for teaching young children to read.

http://www.thephonicspage.org/