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A recent New York Times article threatens to revive longstanding misconceptions about phonics. Teaching children to sound out words in a way that’s backed by science shouldn’t carry political baggage.

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A new scientific study that aims to end the so-called reading wars has found that phonics is an essential foundation in the early stages of learning to read, but it is only part of the approach. The ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) As California launches a new literacy campaign, some advocates worry that for English learners, a focus on sounding out ...

In 1955, Rudolph Flesch wrote a simple book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, in which he pointed out that education was failing simply because we were no longer teaching reading by using phonics. It seems no ...

Phonics is a cornerstone skill, both in the context of the Science of Reading as well as across curricula. If students do not have the basic ability to read words on a page, any other instruction a ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

Dominic Wyse receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust for his centre The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy, he also receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. In recent years he has received ...

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

Phonics tests for six year olds have started in schools in England. But what do parents need to know about this system for learning to read? Phonics has been promoted by the government as the best way ...