"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long.

A student will learn to sound out the word “hop,” for example ... “If you see that a majority of kids aren’t reading at grade level, and we know that explicit (phonics) instruction works, it seems ...

We look forward to the day when these dismal reading proficiency scores are viewed as a scandal rather than encouraging news.

Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a wide-sweeping district restructuring, phonics lessons will be ...

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read ... approach to literacy means students are taught the individual sounds of vowels, consonants, groupings of letters, phonograms and other ...

but some states are turning back to the practice of teaching letter sounds—if teacher unions do not spoil the efforts first. Phonics instructs children to identify letters and their ...

A student will learn to sound out the word ... “If you see that a majority of kids aren’t reading at grade level, and we know that explicit (phonics) instruction works, it seems obvious ...

which would require public schools to use phonics-based reading curriculum rather than a whole-language system. The former helps students decode words by focusing on sounds, whereas the latter ...

As a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a mother of a child in San Diego public schools, I’ve seen California’s early ...