So keep playing those rhyming, sound games and reading together to explore words, expand their language and help their early communication skills. Phonics just means matching the sounds that make ...

The extent of the illiteracy epidemic in Michigan and elsewhere demands more than simply switching curriculum materials in ...

If a word is unfamiliar it can be skipped, guessed at, or picked up from context. Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music ...

The check measures their ability to use synthetic phonics—an approach to teaching reading—to blend sounds together to read words. If they don't pass, children take the test again in the next ...

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

On one side are the proponents of the "science of reading" movement, a phonics- and cognitive-based instructional method. The opposing side champions "balanced literacy," emphasizing word ...