Phonics is a method that teaches children how to read by linking letters together based on sound groups. Together, these alphabetical combinations can aid children to easily begin pairing them by ...

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...

Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul wants to see New York’s public schools go back to the basics when it comes to reading education, and that means a return to phonics-based learning for most students. In an ...

Learning is always more fun when play is involved. The Reading Therapy Center of Southern Arizona, a local organization that teaches reading to kids with disabilities, is hosting a monthly event where ...

To the editor: English is a phonetic language, so as soon as children learn letters and sounds, they can start to write simple messages. Most people go on to write well enough for practical purposes, ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

Patti Ghezzi covered education for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution from 1996 until 2006. In a guest column today, Ghezzi writes about the big story she says she missed while covering Georgia schools ...

Dick and Jane are dead. Spot’s dead, too. Thank goodness. The 19 first-graders in Jane Worthington’s class at Botetourt Elementary School in Gloucester County don’t have to struggle with the monotony ...

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long. Through ...