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 ...

The third set of stories and poems covers 'blends'. These are letters which join together to make another sound, for example, br ot, gl as, ia sg. Lists of the words in each set are given below. In ...

The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

If a Wordle user guesses a letter that's in the right place, that tile will then turn green. If the letter does appear at ...

As we now know, phonics isn’t just about letters. Try going on a walk, through a park for example, and noticing all of the individual sounds you can hear. In the park, you might hear leaves ...

The Board of Regents recently decided phonics, the approach to learning to read and write by correlating sounds with letters, should be taught in schools. Phonics includes learning different ...

The key to teaching phonics well is not just teaching them their ABCs, you must know the ABCs, but it's not just teaching them, helping them to learn letter/sound correspondences, but it's finding ...