In its Year one report, the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EdCom II) highlighted issues on the old and new K-12 curriculum, including its congestion and unclear competency support for ...

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 ...

With many parents wanting to give their kids a head start when it comes to reading, Phonics with Robert Reg, a phonics class ...

Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music notation, or Morse code, or Braille, in which mastery of a set of symbols comes first.

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

JENNY Priestley was a primary school teacher for two decades. In September 2022, the mum-of-two wanted to take her boys to school and pick them up each day, and attend some of their activities.

Phonics is the technique used in schools to teach children to read. Pupils are taught to identify and repeat letter sounds. Those sounds then combine to form words that they read aloud.