Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

The research, conducted by Flinders University, found children who took part in phoneme-focused phonological aware­ness classes performed 2½ times better at converting sounds into letters — a key ...

The Children Reading Phonics Foundation Program was created by a veteran reading teacher who claims he has the formula to help parents quickly teach their child to be a great reader. Children that ...

A third-grader works through a phonics lesson in Washington, Ill. Editor at Large As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a ...

In teaching, time is of the essence. Even seasoned teachers feel pressured. In reading instruction, this can cause us to overlook, at the start of our phonics lessons, two critical practices: ...

These phonics games for Year 1 from literacy resources website Plazoom will develop pupils’ segmenting skills. They’ll practise identifying the phonemes (sounds) in words and choosing the correct ...

Teaching children to read using phonics has been described by an academic as "almost a form of abuse". Phonics requires children to blend common sounds into words. But Durham University research ...