Parents need to know that Read with Phonics gives kids practice decoding words by breaking them down into the 44 phonemes, or sounds, of the English language. Games are organized by individual ...

A project exploring how teachers are teaching reading and their use of phonics, and the impact of using the Phonics Screening Check in Year 2 due to Covid disruption. This research builds on the ...

Three-cueing” instructs kids to guess at words instead of sounding them out through phonics. It doesn’t work. | Opinion ...

Flexible Phonics fits well around existing phonics programmes. A novel aspect is that it provides children with more strategies to flexibly read all words, enabling them to independently read novel ...

The check uses 20 real words, and 20 made-up or “alien” words for grade 1 students to sound out to measure their reading and phonics knowledge. Using made-up words such as “scrug” helps a ...

Advocates for English learners have raised concerns for years about new reading instruction policies. A new report claims ...

When we talk about reading comprehension, it is a full-fledged term that has nothing to do with mere word recognition. It ...

In fact, some of the most common English words are nonphonetic. For example, the words to and do do not rhyme with so or go. One and gone don’t rhyme either. And why are to, too, and two all ...

The funding was approved in 2023 to support the "science of reading" approach, which emphasizes phonics, and address concerns about declining reading scores. The future of the reading initiative and ...