Phonics tests for six year olds have started in schools in England. But what do parents need to know about this system for learning to read? Phonics has been promoted by the government as the best way ...

To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9". Our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia. I'm one of the second grade teachers at The Soulard School, and here for "Teaching in Room 9", this time around ...

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 ...

Phonics helps teach children how to merge separate sounds together to make it one word. from www.shutterstock.com The efficacy of phonics as a method of teaching has been debated for several decades, ...

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 ...

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...