Missouri lawmakers have banned educators from leaning on a model of reading instruction called the “three-cueing” method as ...

In 1955, Rudolph Flesch wrote a simple book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, in which he pointed out that education was failing simply because we were no longer teaching reading by using phonics.It seems no ...

Phonics The knowledge that letters represent phonemes and that these sounds can combine to form words. Fluency The ability to read easily, accurately, quickly and with expression and understanding.

As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature.

With phonics win, Banks proves himself the champion NYC kids need The problem is, the way we teach literacy isn’t the only mistake we continue to make in our schools. Our kids spend a lot of ...

I spent much of the 1980s and 1990s as a New York Times correspondent in East Asia, and children there (including mine) learned to read through phonics and phonetic alphabets: hiragana in Japan ...

Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though). 2.

Synthetic phonics has always played a role in teaching children how to read, alongside other methods. However, following recommendations by former headteacher and Ofsted Chief Inspector Sir Jim ...

How phonics is making a comeback as millions of kids struggle to read "I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. By Arthur Jones II, Tal Axelrod, and Jay O'Brien.

Every school district in New York must revert to teaching phonics in grades pre-K through third, starting this fall, the Board of Regents decided Monday.