New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño fears overemphasizing foundational skills such as phonics will take time away from writing, favor already advantaged children and ignore the needs of ...

Phonics is the base for learning English. Unfortunately, it was cast aside during the whole-language movement. (“‘I Literally Cried': Teachers Describe Their Transition to Science-Based Reading ...

Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she will try to throw out the current way reading is taught and require all schools to teach phonics, a once widely used system that has had a rebirth ...

The article “Teaching Reading Takes Training ” (Dec. 4, 2019) is riddled with leaps of logic. If “1 in 10 professors could not correctly identify that the word ‘shape’ has three phonemes,” why does ...

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Research published today in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the ...

Government urged to drop emphasis on synthetic phonics in English schools as not backed up by latest evidence A landmark study has described the way primary school pupils are taught to read in England ...