If anyone can provide any more information about this matter, I would be glad to hear, as well as reply. The comments made by Scamrose and Bacaan were indeed interesting. They were helpful and perhaps the Ministry of Education would provide some feedback on them. The comments made by Scamrose regarding the current primary curriculum were true. They do need a lot of revision and a lot of serious consideration.
Most teachers use several methods instead of one.
There is some sort of integration teaching style adopted by any teacher. Our primary curriculum is rather defined but in the past teachers had taught the primary students using methods that they knew and quite frankly, they did their best. Regarding your statement claiming that boys are slower readers than girls, this is an on-going debate among education professionals. True, a teacher's expertise is crucial but the students have to co-operate with the teacher too, that is, to learn how to read and other things. I agree that we should look at our resources and then determine how to use them.