The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading ...

JENNY Priestley was a primary school teacher for two decades. In September 2022, the mum-of-two wanted to take her boys to school and pick them up each day, and attend some of their activities.

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

One member of the California state board of education, a phonics man who is married to a third-grade teacher, described the appeal of whole-language to teachers this way: "It's easier to teach ...

Victorian state school grade one students will sit a new 10-minute literacy assessment under the state's move to phonics teaching for reading, which experts say will improve early intervention for ...

and replacing it with teaching them to decode words by sounding them out, a process known as phonics. The literacy experts who created the new California standards and teaching expectations are ...

The literacy skills that teacher candidates would learn to teach include not only phonics, which correlates sounds with letters in the alphabet, but also vocabulary, oral language, fluency, reading ...

In terms of where you would put phonics, in terms of priority in the lesson, many would argue that we haven’t got time to do it. In essence though it really is the fundamental building block of ...

A teaching assistant tried to sue for race discrimination after her colleague said 'there is a brown cow' during a phonics lesson. Kamaljit Kaur claimed she was the victim of racism when the ...

Education policy is riven by ideological debates, both in the UK and globally. Phonics versus “whole language” methods in the ...