Phonics for Kids: Learn Short & Long A Sounds with Letter Tiles. Posted: March 10, 2025 ... "The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A.

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It ...

So you can read. But how? People learn to talk simply through listening — to our parents talking to us and to each other, to the TV talking to the ether, to strangers on the street. But that’s ...

That meant lots of time on letter sounds and how to combine them into words. In 2000, a government-formed National Reading Panel released the findings of its exhaustive examination of the research.

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