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Professionals A re-drafting of the government's literary
strategy in 2007 is expected to order primary schools to adopt a
system of "synthetic phonics" to teach children to read. Under
the system, sounds associated with letters or groups of letters
must be learned before they can be combined into words. But many
teachers have condemned the move, claiming that this method
makes the process boring and onerous, and that it replaces the
use of "real books" with dull phonic-specific publications.
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