The extent of the illiteracy epidemic in Michigan and elsewhere demands more than simply switching curriculum materials in ...

Teachers unions oppose the reintroduction of phonics in reading education, despite evidence of its effectiveness compared to ...

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 ...

“Three-cueing” instructs kids to guess at words instead of sounding them out through phonics. It doesn’t work ... The results show 42% of Missouri fourth graders and 35% of eighth graders ...

So keep playing those rhyming, sound games and reading together to explore words, expand their language and help their early communication skills. Phonics just means matching the sounds that make ...