California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use ...

Two of the synthetic phonics programs, Letters and Sounds (L&S) and Early Reading Research (ERR), used by English primary schools to teach young children to read are equally effective overall.

Meet the Letter Sounds also introduces children to basic phonics rules, such as "r-controlled vowels" and "silent e." ...

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 ...

Regarding Mona Charon’s Jan. 25 commentary, “Why Johnny might finally learn to read”: Before you get too excited about a full phonics approach to reading instruction, remember that you can ...

To the editor: “English is a phonetic language,” states a letter writer who taught reading ... spelling patterns and other things besides phonics. Reading is about meaning, and no amount ...

"The process of decoding involves phonics and letter-sound relationships," says Carly Shuler, co-founder and CEO of Hoot Reading, an online reading program. "Decoding is learning how letters sound ...

Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics (SSP) manual published by the Department for Education & Skills in 2007 as part of its drive to improve literacy. It is now used in around 70% ...

Angry district residents sent an open letter to the school board in November, demanding that the district embrace the science of reading. The district said it had added a new phonics sequence in ...