Here is Ms Sue Lloyd's response to my first email. She is a committee member of the Reading Reform Foundation UK. 16 Nov at 17:14 Dear Luqman Michel, Thank you for your interesting email. I think the reading problem comes when children are asked to memorise words and not decode them. When strong systematic synthetic phonics is used, in whole class situations and intervention for the slow-to-start, then all the children become good at decoding.