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

As a homeschool parent, I’ve used many apps to teach my children to read, and these are the best I’ve downloaded over the past decade. Hooked On Phonics is my favorite app for learning to read.

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 ...

they try to get children to familiarize themselves with a limited set of simple words (to memorize them, phonics people would say, like trick ponies), not to use their knowledge of letters and ...

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 ...

You have to give children the tools... You can't drill and skill phonics, that won't work. Phonics, just like every other aspect of literacy, depends on understanding and thinking. The key to ...

Decades of research has shown that phonics instruction—showing children how letters represent sounds and blend together to form words—is the most effective way to teach beginning readers how ...