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 ...

The key to teaching phonics well is not just teaching them their ABCs, you must know the ABCs, but it's not just teaching them, helping them to learn letter/sound correspondences, but it's finding ...

With her new book, A-Z Initial Sounds Colouring Workbook, phonics trainer and early childhood educator, Damilola Olatundun makes a strong statement about her commitment towards developing the reading ...

phonics people would say, like trick ponies), not to use their knowledge of letters and sounds to decode words they haven't seen before. Rudolf Flesch's scorching 1955 best seller Why Johnny Can't ...

The strategies align with decades of research that shows that in addition to broadening their vocabulary, "children need to understand phonics, or the relationship between letters and the sounds ...

phonemic awareness (the ability to hear and manipulate the individual sounds in words); phonics (the ability to connect those sounds to the letters that represent them); reading fluency ...

Just months before the government introduces regular phonics testing in primary schools, a UK study claims similar tests in England made little difference to children's reading achievement. The ...