Three-cueing” instructs kids to guess at words instead of sounding them out through phonics. It doesn’t work. | Opinion ...

What you're saying: Though a few readers liked whole word learning, the vast majority were phonics fans (many Catholic school grads). ⛪️ Generational change: Reader Kevin S., who attended St ...

Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music notation, or Morse code, or Braille, in which mastery of a set of symbols comes first.

March is Reading Month, and while students celebrate with their favorite books, some children are still improving their ...

Phonics is the basis for all reading that leads to putting all the sounds together so quickly that it results in a completed word. Once this basic approach is instilled in the reader’s mind ...

While fixating on teaching phonics to combat the loss, educators are "shortchanging something of equal importance: the role knowledge plays in helping children become good readers." While ...