It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

Teacher associations and ­experts have called for more thorough testing and the teacher shortage to be ­addressed in the wake of new phonics and numeracy checks rolling out from this term.

Two Cuyahoga County schools are among those receiving part of a $46 million federal grant to implement the phonics-based Science of Reading approach mandated statewide.

The law mandates that three cueing, which teaches students to read using context clues, can be used to supplement lessons, but phonics should be the majority of instruction.

As the results of the Year One Phonics Check are made available, this is how you can help your child if they score below the expected standard.