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 ...

For example, the ability for someone to see that the word "rat" is a combination of the sounds each of the letters "r," "a" and "t." Phonics: Reading instruction that teaches students the sounds ...

It also found that instruction was more effective when sounds and letters were combined. On the surface, adding letters to sounds might seem identical to teaching phonics. But some reading experts say ...

Children's literacy rates are falling around the globe. In response, a number of governments, including New Zealand's, are ...

The “science of reading” is a body of knowledge referring to how students learn to sound out words, learn vocabulary, and ...

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 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 ...

But this argument ignores the fact that this funding benefits children in government schools, not just the independent school ...

An ITV News investigation revealed that methods of teaching reading which have been discredited for decades, are being used across Wales. | ITV National News ...

ITV News looks into the Welsh government's plans to improve the way reading is taught to young children. | ITV National News ...