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 ...

Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “ the reading wars ”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over ...

Headteachers who resist teaching phonics are denying students the “education they deserve”, the Schools Minister has warned. Attacking heads who refuse to accept the “overwhelming evidence ...

Focus on phonics to teach children how to read ‘is uninformed’, study says UCL researchers join more than 250 signatories of open letter calling on government to change policy Luke O'Reilly ...

Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

A new approach to teaching children how to read has been implemented in schools across the country, with educators seeing a dramatic improvement in scores. Known as the 'science of reading,' this ...

Shahed Ahmed, head of Elmhurst Primary School in Newham, told BBC Radio 5 live's Morning Reports that teaching phonics as part of a literacy lesson was "the best way" to get children to read quickly.

While the authors acknow­ledge the “evidentiary weight” behind teaching the five key reading skills of phonics, phon­emic awareness, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary, “ the value and ...

Teaching phonics to kids is cheap but has a big pay-off As the federal government looks for cost effective education reforms, teaching reading using phonics is an obvious place to start.