Phonics strategies begin by teaching children to recognize letters and make their corresponding sounds. Then they advance to manipulating and blending first-letter sounds to read and write simple ...

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use ...

I spent much of the 1980s and 1990s as a New York Times correspondent in East Asia, and children there (including mine) learned to read through phonics and phonetic alphabets: hiragana in Japan ...

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The author's search for interventions for children who had not responded to phonics led to the role of prosody, the melody of language, and its importance to phonics and reading. The author found ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

It’s how kids were taught to read throughout most of history. “There is science behind proving that a phonics-based curriculum actually gets kids reading,” Good says. “When you learn to ...

Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state's third ...