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 ...

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 ...

To the editor: English is a phonetic language, so as soon as children learn letters and sounds ... in levels of competence among adults. Phonics has little or nothing to do with it.

To the editor: “English is a phonetic language,” states a letter writer who taught reading ... spelling patterns and other things besides phonics. Reading is about meaning, and no amount ...

Regarding Mona Charon’s Jan. 25 commentary, “Why Johnny might finally learn to read”: Before you get too excited about a full phonics approach to reading instruction, remember that you can ...

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 ...

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

Regarding “why Johnny might finally learn to read (January 25).” Before you get too excited about a full phonics approach to teaching reading remember that you can spell “fish” “ghoti ...

Kindergarten students Gabby Kim, left, and Ellie Such answer questions on a literacy lesson at Mark Twain Elementary School in Long Beach. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) ...

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 ...