PHONICS SONGS plus with songs by Donny and Marie Osmond can enhance traditional phonics instruction. Children who do not learn to read in the first couple of grades face a dilemma; they are not ...

Children who learn to read with whole language tend to read with fluency. In phonics, children tend to read very choppily.” Such claims are hotly debated among scholars and teachers.

What mischief will Bluey and Bingo get up to with the magic xylophone?

There are alternatives to England’s focus on synthetic phonics, which teaches children to decode words by learning the relationship between letters and sounds.

It’s taken four decades, but using phonics to teach English soon could be state policy. Phonics is where kids are taught a ...

Phonics is the key to unlocking literacy skills among Lawrence K-12 students, according to educator Barbara Mullen, and the use of other methods to teach reading, especially to kids with dyslexia ...

Patti Ghezzi is a former education reporter. In a guest column today, Ghezzi writes about the big story she says she missed while covering schools — the phonics story.

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can ...