Second-graders use magnetic tiles to build and change words as the district pairs word-reading skills with language ...

Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of "systematic phonics". "Phonics" describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

Is Starfall worth using in the classroom? Explore its phonics, reading and math activities, teacher resources, pricing, ...

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

Hooked on Phonics today launched "Where Will Words Take You?", a new back-to-school campaign focused on the possibilities ...

Current government policy concerning reading favours synthetic phonics (SP), where children learn to recognise letters with their associated sounds – and how to blend those sounds to "read" the "words ...

From the much maligned key stage 1 screening test which asks children to sound out words such as "drall", "halp" and "snope", to the current embrace of the synthetic phonics model in UK schools, how ...

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...