BBC NEWS | UK | Education | 'Only 100 words' needed to readEngland's strategy for teaching children to read could be overloading them with superfluous words, researchers have suggested. The strategy recommends teaching them to recognise 150 words initially. An ongoing study at the university of Warwick says 100 will do to read most written English, including books intended for adults. Far fewer phonic skills than in the official strategy were needed to un
