Alphabets make up the core of preschool learning. The alphabet is the first thing a child needs to learn before anything ...

Scatter bean bags with letters around the yard. Scatter bean bags with letters around the yard. Then say a sound and ask your child to find the bag with the letter that makes that sound. This is a ...

Let’s consider an example. Today’s story is about helping children learn to read. Here, Chris Brooks is using the ‘phonics’ method.

Such children learn to read by any method, either look-say or phonics. They develop quite adequate phonics ability through look-say methods merely by matching the spoken-word patterns to the ...

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

Most children need help learning to read, but there’s long-standing disagreement on how best to help them. Decades of research have identified the most effective approaches.

Should we explain to our students through phonics teaching how our speech is codified into English writing? It sounds obvious that we should; indeed, that not to do so would be cruel. Early ...

Part of learning to read should be learning to love books – and enjoyment in reading is linked to higher achievement. If children don’t like reading, how we teach it to them isn’t working.