Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Every school district in New York must revert to teaching phonics in grades pre-K through third, starting this fall, the ...

Changes to the reading curriculum are headed to schools in New York State. The Board of Regents recently decided phonics, the ...

If a word is unfamiliar it can be skipped, guessed at, or picked up from context. Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music ...