The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...

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 ...

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading ...

Victorian state school grade one students will sit a new 10-minute literacy assessment under the state's move to phonics teaching for reading, which experts say will improve early intervention for ...

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 ...