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 ...

Year after year, millions of children fall behind in reading, and the consequences are profound: reduced lifetime earnings, ...

Through various pairs of words, the video illustrates the difference in pronunciation and spelling, emphasizing the importance of final 'e', the combination of letters 'ai', and the use of 'ay' at ...

The once-abandoned instructional approach is back in place in South Dakota in hopes of improving students’ reading ...

Phonics instructs children to identify letters and their pronunciation to construct words, supplying the tools needed to tackle combinations of letters. “Cueing” and its related methods ...

As the Feb. 24 article states, Louisiana is using the "science of reading" emphasizing phonics and teaching students to "decipher words letter by letter and sound by sound." The results ...

South Dakota officially took a step in a better direction Monday when the state’s Board of Education Standards approved revisions to English Language standards that’ll embrace the use of phonics ...

Instead, a “science of reading” — or phonics-based — approach to literacy means students are taught the individual sounds of vowels, consonants, groupings of letters, phonograms and other ...