The National Literacy Trust's annual literacy survey 2025 reveals that one in three children and young people do not enjoy reading, with only 35% of eight to 18-year-olds stating that they enjoy ...

DK has acquired Phonic Books, one of the U.K.’s leading specialist education publishers. Founded in 2006 by Wendy Tweedie, Tami Reis-Frankfort and Clair Wilson, three special needs teachers, the ...

Books are gifts that children can open again and again. In short, if we want our kids to read, let’s read with them, and make it joyful. And let them see you reading too.

Phonics, contextual clues, sounding out, going back to words - all of these are important skills. Phonics is important, but I do think it has been over-exaggerated of late.

A version of this letter appeared in the Jan. 13, 2021 edition of Education Week as “More Books, Not More Phonics.” A version of this article appeared in the January 13, 2021 edition of ...

Since last fall, Brittany McGuire and Jackie Benson have written 35 books that teach phonics through comics. “We have a similar work style and work ethic,” McGuire said.

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Help grow your child's understanding of phonics by playing with rhyming and sounding out different words so they can hear things that sound the same or different.

Phonics, contextual clues, sounding out, going back to words - all of these are important skills. Phonics is important, but I do think it has been over-exaggerated of late.

This includes the systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) scheme, which teach children to read by breaking words down into their individual sounds and is pushed too early.