The Equals Formal Curriculum English Scheme of Work has been designed for that very small percentage of the school population, perhaps as low as one or two per cent, who have global learning difficulties (GLD) to such a degree that they are consistently working at levels significantly below their age-related peers for all of their academic lives. The term GLD includes all those in England currently ascribed as having severe learning difficulties (SLD) and many if not most, currently ascribed as having moderate learning difficulties (MLD). Evidence of the difficulties faced by such pupils will become increasingly obvious beyond Year 1 at age 6, because the difficulties are global rather than specific. That is, they are likely to affect all learning, but will be particularly apparent in numeracy and literacy. This paper, the first of two, seeks to clarify why reading and writing are so extraordinarily difficult for this population and posits that the answers lie in challenging perceived wisdoms within the education system’s predilections towards (i) regarding phonics as the only solution to reading difficulties (ii) persisting over time (and in the face of evidence to the contrary) with the view that children, young people and adults with GLD can make sufficient progress within phonics teaching and (iii) the use of differentiation of a standardised national curriculum model as being a sufficient answer to global learning difficulties. Clearly the main language used in England is English, but the principles and ideas outlined in this paper should apply in any language which uses a phonic structure when teaching language.

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“平等正规课程英语工作计划”专为全球学习困难（GLD）程度如此之低的一小部分学校人口（可能低至百分之一或百分之二）而设计，他们一直在努力地学习。在他们的所有学术生涯中，其年龄均大大低于与年龄相关的同龄人。GLD一词包括目前在英格兰被认为具有严重学习困难（SLD）的所有人，以及许多（如果不是大多数的话）目前被归类为中等学习困难（MLD）的人。这些学生面临的困难的证据在一年级（6岁）以后将越来越明显，因为这些困难是全球性的，而不是具体的。也就是说，它们可能影响所有学习，但在算术和识字方面尤为明显。本文是两个的第一个，试图阐明为什么阅读和写作对这一人群如此困难，并提出答案在于挑战教育系统对（i）语音学是解决阅读困难的唯一解决方案（ii）持续存在的解决方案（ii）的挑战。面对相反的证据），认为患有GLD的儿童，年轻人和成年人可以在语音教学中取得足够的进步，并且（iii）使用标准化的国家课程模型作为全球学习的充分答案困难。显然，英国使用的主要语言是英语，但是本文概述的原则和思想应适用于在教学语言时使用语音结构的任何语言。