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 ...

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

Before this stage though, children have been learning phonics skills since they were born; differentiating between sounds such as their mother’s voice and a phone ringing, or trees rustling and ...