In terms of where you would put phonics, in terms of priority in the lesson, many would argue that we haven’t got time to do it. In essence though it really is the fundamental building block of ...
It’s just that memorization isn’t the route to get there. Decades of research has shown that phonics instruction—showing children how letters represent sounds and blend together to form ...
With few exceptions, education journalists have treated the reading crisis as though it’s due only to problems with phonics instruction. Meanwhile, in the relatively few schools using curricula ...