Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

This is an unusual post about the “reading wars,” that seemingly never-ending battle about how to best teach reading to students — systematic phonics or whole language. This argues that both ...

Meet the Letter Sounds also introduces children to basic phonics rules, such as "r-controlled vowels" and "silent e." ...

Phonics teaching is systematic when teachers follow a specific order. Typically, they start with frequent single letters (such as “s”, “a”, “t”, “p”, “i” and “n”) before ...

The reintroduction of phonics into literacy education will only ... To the editor: Sounding out the letters may improve reading ability. The next step is to advocate improved spelling so the ...

Often emphasized in K-2, phonics is teaching students the correspondence between visual symbols (graphemes made of letters) and speech sounds (phonemes). But to access phonics, children must have ...

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...