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 ...

The extent of the illiteracy epidemic in Michigan and elsewhere demands more than simply switching curriculum materials in ...

Victorian state school grade one students will sit a new 10-minute literacy assessment under the state's move to phonics ...

If a word is unfamiliar it can be skipped, guessed at, or picked up from context. Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music ...