As the results of the Year One Phonics Check are made available, this is how you can help your child if they score below the ...

This post — written by David Reinking, Peter Smagorinsky, and David B. Yaden — looks at the debate on phonics in a different way than is most often voiced these days. It notes, among other ...

The game is a brilliant way for your child to improve their phonics and reading as they play. The Alphablocks 'Fun Run' game is available to download and play in the CBeebies Little Learners app .

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

Recently, a friend gave me a hand-me-down kit filled with beautiful wooden games and brightly colored books that promises to teach my child to read. The phonics-based program, the company says, can be ...

Too many of California’s children cannot read. Schools must do things differently to change that, and they should start with ...

The new bill, AB 1121, would require all schools to use a method based on the so-called "science of reading," which emphasizes phonics. Last year, an almost identical bill died in the Assembly ...

The argument is that some words break the phonics rules, so memorizing “sight words” is more effective. Words that break the rules include irregular verbs such as were, are and could.