Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Readers applaud the return of phonics, but teaching reading shouldn’t stop there

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...
Amy Edwards on MSN

Best YouTube videos to teach kids letter sounds and phonics

In this video I walk through my favorite YouTube channels for teaching accurate letter sounds and early phonics. I share the ...
Los Angeles Times

How do you teach phonics? Use this reading activity to pair letters and sounds with your child

Phonics is a method that teaches children how to read by linking letters together based on sound groups. Together, these alphabetical combinations can aid children to easily begin pairing them by ...
The Conversation

Isolated phonics lessons aren’t working: here’s a better way to teach young children to read and write

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 ...
Education Week

Is Phonics Boring? These Teachers Say It Doesn’t Have to Be

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...
Time

Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read

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Education Week

With Larry Ferlazzo

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the appropriate role of phonics in reading instruction? The role of phonics in reading instruction is often debated: how big, how small, and how should it be ...
Yahoo

Hochul wants to require schools to teach phonics. Does 'science of reading' support it?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...
The Conversation

Phonics teaching in England needs to change – our new research points to a better approach

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 the ...
PBS

Bill Calls For Teaching Phonics to Boost Reading Levels

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New York Post

Going back to phonics is just the first step to making our schools teach again

Detroit made headlines in March when National Assessment of Educational Progress scores showed that only 5% of the city's 8th graders can read on grade level. In 2018, that number was 7%. Shutterstock ...
Newsday

Hochul wants schools to teach phonics to address concerns over reading proficiency

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 ...