If your child has just started school, phonics expert Ann Sullivan shares her top tips for helping them at home ...

Isabel Simmons helps children learn about the digraphs sh and ch. Isabel Simmons shows children how to build, spell, and read words with the digraphs sh and ch. Digraphs are two letters that ...

Cognition How Kids Learn to Read Evolving research shows kids need phonics and whole language instruction. Posted July 31, 2022 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan ...

US schools are going all in on phonics, but research shows that approach won’t work for every child. A blended literacy strategy can get more students reading.

Many states are finally turning to phonics for teaching reading, but parents and caregivers can support early literacy skills long before kids get to school.

Bob Books #1 — Reading Magic is an excellent introduction to phonics for young children, or a nice companion to the printed Bob Books (a systematic method of teaching kids to read).

Why do so many children struggle to read? And why are we still debating over how they should be taught?

To the Editor:According to the recent Reading First final impact study, children participating in the program did better than their peers in comparison schools on a test of decoding in grade 1 ...

Juan picked up the individual letter sounds and digraphs I introduced in no time. He began decoding shorter, then longer, words and reading books with the sounds he’d learned. The reading gains ...

A focus on teaching children to read using an approach known as synthetic phonics, has sucked the joy out of learning to read, according to the authors of a new study.

And no single method of teaching reading works best. Learning to read requires a broad range of skills including phonics, learning vocabulary, memory and knowledge, and more.