Introduction It is important that children develop their reading skills during their educational years, and this is one of ...

Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...

The International Literacy Association has put out a new brief endorsing “systematic and explicit” phonics in all early reading instruction. “English is an alphabetic language. We have 26 letters.

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

A new scientific study that aims to end the so-called reading wars has found that phonics is an essential foundation in the early stages of learning to read, but it is only part of the approach. The ...

Regarding the March 12 editorial “Yes, U.S. children should be hooked on phonics”: I am a volunteer with Reading Partners, tutoring children at elementary schools in D.C. to bring them to grade-level ...

From the much maligned key stage 1 screening test which asks children to sound out words such as "drall", "halp" and "snope", to the current embrace of the synthetic phonics model in UK schools, how ...

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, ...