Inside Sulphur Springs K 8 Community School, PCAT Literacy Ministries helps young students master the basics: letters, sounds ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

We’ve compiled a list of interactive reading tools that make learning to read fun, engaging, and confidence-building for children ...

I am one of Alice Harvey’s grandchildren, and I was delighted with Emily Flake’s tribute to her (Comic Strip, December 22nd). Flake wonders what Alice did after she stopped contributing cartoons to ...

We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. You can change your cookies in your browser at any time. Synthetic phonics, where ...

In October, the Washington Post declared the victory of phonics over whole language instruction. California was bowing to reality, joining red states like Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana in ...

For more than a century, parents and teachers have been engaged in “reading wars” between those who favor phonics (teaching letter sounds and combinations) and cueing (using a picture paired with a ...

Synthetic phonics, where children are taught to pronounce sounds in isolation before putting them together to form words, isn’t working for many struggling young readers, a study led by UCL has found.

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Dominic Wyse (UCL Institute of Education) argues that narrow synthetic phonics are not effective for teaching struggling young readers. Since 2012, England has ...

The British Council has released LearnEnglish Kids: Phonics Stories - an interactive phonics-based story app for iPad. LearnEnglish Kids: Phonics Stories is based on the UK phonics curriculum, ...

I discuss tried-and-true favorites like KidsTV123 (Phonics Song 2, new version), the Better Alphabet song with Jack Hartmann and Katie Garner, Peachie Speechie for articulation, and Geraldine the ...

The fact that a significant number of first formers is reading below their grade level is cause for national concern. However, despite all the talk regarding literacy intervention programmes, one gets ...