The Department for Education maintains that international evidence demonstrates that phonics is the most effective way of teaching early reading.
How well children do at school and early reading skills are already widely known to be linked to higher earnings.
Is it any coincidence that his report on early reading not only told teachers what to teach, but how to teach it?
We know from monitoring children's development for almost a decade that despite lots of money being spent in the early years, standards of early reading and mathematics development haven't increased.
By watching how the market trades at or even a bit below the prior lows, one can often get an early reading as to whether or not the lows will hold.
It's not clear, on an early reading of the report, how much point there remains in Royal Bank of Scotland continuing to operate an investment bank alongside its commercial and retail arms.
But look who it has appointed to carry it out: Jim Rose, former Deputy Chief Inspector of Schools in England - knighted this summer following his 2006 report into the teaching of early reading, with its emphasis on synthetic phonics.
The number of bullish newsletter writers is up to 45.3%, and has improved from the early October reading of 34.4%.
And unfortunately, based on my early-morning reading, that may not be the case.
West Ham' s play visibly relaxed as news filtered around Vicarage Road that Wigan had scored twice against Reading early in the first half.
Meanwhile goalkeeper Simon Moore has returned to the club after a loan spell at Basingstoke, with fellow custodian Ben Hamer going back to Reading early.
United piled on the pressure in the early stages but Reading goalkeeper Adam Federici kept them at bay with smart saves from Tom Cleverley and Ashley Young.
Schools minister Nick Gibb has said in the past how crucial it is for children to master the basics of reading as early as possible so they can go on to develop a real love of reading.
So Mr Blair just keeps on reading the early pages out all over again.
Are we actually reading an early game description before a host of changes were made to the final product?
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Short interest now stands at its second-lowest level in the past two years (only the reading in early February 2011 was lower).
The Reading player netted an early penalty for his fifth international goal and he was a constant threat.
They are whipping up tasty concoctions in their kitchens and hoping for something to click with early adopters who are label-reading at Whole Foods and Fresh Markets.
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This was a small-scale study, but Prof Nicolson says the results are on a par with those achieved by the large-scale reading recovery scheme in the early 1990s.
Economists at RBS said the latter reading, the lowest since early April, was encouraging even if a chunk of the decline can be laid off on post-Hurricane Irene effects and seasonal factors.
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After skimming a few histories, I dug deeper, reading the letters and journals of early explorers.
Born in Belfast in December 1960, Branagh spent his early years in Northern Ireland before moving to Reading with his family when he was nine.
Morrison, an early endorser of Amazon.com's Kindle reading device and the author of prize winners including "Song of Solomon, " said she's not a Luddite and does keep up with the Internet, enough so that she much prefers the nonfiction she reads on blogs to fiction.
Freud, on this reading, was right about the importance of early experience on character formation.
The early kick off saw a 0-0 draw between Reading and QPR at the Madejski Stadium, which saw the basement pair relegated.
Most of my early clients were ones that I reached out to directly after reading something by or about them.
In the Lords they're starting at 11am, three and a half hours early, to accommodate the massive speakers list for the Second Reading of the already much amended Health and Social Care Bill - 92 peers are currently down to speak, in what promises to be an epic Lords sequel to its stormy passage through the Commons.
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But last week's unemployment reading sparked a sell-off that extended into the early part of this week.
We work with President Karzai, as I said in reading out the conversation President Obama had with President Karzai early Friday morning.
Gold backed down from early modest gains in the aftermath of a stronger-than-expected reading on U.S. retail sales.
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