Teachers have secured a multimillion-dollar deal with the state government after initially being denied a say on how ...

The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

Systematic phonics is explicit instruction about how the alphabet is used to represent spoken words, allowing children to take parts of words—such as "oy" in the word "boy" or "ay" in the word ...

The authors suggest that systematic phonics programmes are needed to reach literacy goals.

Across the country, a mix of educators, parents and activists have insisted in recent years that research shows phonics — the systematic decoding of letters and sounds — is essential to ...

However, experts recommend a clear and systematic way of teaching phonics, where students learn the sounds of letters in a particular order. The Marungko approach, which teaches phonics in steps from ...