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 ...

Children should first learn the letters and letter combinations that convey the English language's forty-four sounds ... "Sounding out" words is a phonics, rather than a whole-language, technique.

Staff Writer As Susie Mahowald stands in front of her first-grade class at St. John the Baptist Catholic School, she teaches them to spell and read without opening her mouth, ...

"More than half of Massachusetts third-grade students are not proficient readers. Stop and take that in," write two education ...

Hooked On Phonics is my favorite ... recognizing letter sounds and phonemes, and learning to read words that don’t follow the standard phonetic rules. Kids enjoy the engaging monster characters ...

And after phonics instruction is complete, morphology instruction continues to be useful into the middle and upper grades, as children learn to read and spell increasingly complex words.

The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...

Adopting a theory- and evidence-based approach is crucial for refining the curriculum and enhancing educational outcomes. For reading, the science of reading investigates the best ways for children ..

We thought using engaging little booklets, with opportunities for kids to memorize, “pretend-read,” enjoy, and talk about the little books would help “prepare the ground” for learning ... sounds and ...