We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Letter news every morning. My first letter ever to a newspaper but I felt moved to write as David Pilling gave us an entertaining ...

He travels all over the world with "Jolly Phonics", a system for teaching literacy through synthetic phonics, using the 42-letter sounds of the English language rather than the alphabet.

advised teachers to use concrete objects for identification when teaching jolly phonics. She sais for instance ‘the teacher should go to the class with an orange when teaching the letter ‘o ...