It's 40 years since the introduction of the Initial Teaching Alphabet, which was devised to teach young children to read. But many people found it did them no favours in the long run, says BBC News ...

Readers respond to a feature about the controversial Initial Teaching Alphabet, which was adopted by some schools in the 1960s but had a lasting impact I was a teacher-training student living in ...

Parents are to be given advice on how to sing nursery rhymes, teach the alphabet and a range of other activities they can do with children before they start school, in a bid to close the gap in skills ...