Introduced last year to kindergarten and first-grade teachers, the guide sets specific, week-by-week lessons in phonics and phonemic awareness – a precursor to phonics that deals with ...

'Cut phonics teaching': Vital improvements needed in how we teach children to read, say 250 teachers and academics An open letter is sent to the Education Secretary calling for changes in how ...

Lessons focus first and foremost on motivating children through use of real books – standard books written for children rather than texts specially produced for phonics schemes. The lessons integrate ...

Literacy experts explained 'the science of reading' isn't just one program or curriculum, but an entire body of research on how to teach reading.

The so-called “reading wars” led to the convening of a National Reading Panel in 2000, which found evidence that explicit phonics lessons help kids become better readers.

More American schools are now favoring the “science of reading" which focuses on phonics and vocabulary building block lessons over traditional “whole language" teaching.

Focus on phonics to teach children how to read ‘is uninformed’, study says UCL researchers join more than 250 signatories of open letter calling on government to change policy ...

Since 2010, five- and six-year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics.” “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that ...