Most people agree that reading is the most important skill if a student is to develop proficiency in English, math and other disciplines. Most parents were taught reading using phonics or some ...

Meet the Letters taught children to recognize letter characters. Now, with Meet the Letter Sounds, children will learn the different sounds that each letter makes. Meet the Letter Sounds also ...

The Feb. 24 letter to the editor “Phonics the wrong way to teach reading” (The Daily Progress) declares phonics “fatally flawed.” English language is deemed “not phonic, unlike …other European ...

The front page story in the Feb. 23 Daily Progress (“Back to Basics”), about teaching phonics, caught my eye immediately. On the surface, phonics looks like a great idea. Just below the surface, it is ...

Regarding “why Johnny might finally learn to read (January 25).” Before you get too excited about a full phonics approach to teaching reading remember that you can spell “fish” “ghoti” (the “gh” in ...

In response to Mona Charen’s Tuesday column supporting phonics reading instruction: The idea that English is a phonetic language is laughable. One symbol, one sound is a great idea. But that’s not ...