As the results of the Year One Phonics Check are made available, this is how you can help your child if they score below the ...

LETTERS. Letter: Phonics is ... Columbus City Schools should consider discarding the RIMPs entirely and instituting a comprehensive program to provide phonics instruction in grades K-3.

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 ...

Phonics has little or nothing to do with it. It is the same for reading. Yes, effective instruction in phonics and other essential reading skills does help a child learn to read by age 8 or 9.

“We must keep the good parts of whole language and keep the pendulum from swinging all the way back to all phonics all the time.” I realize the proficient versus grade-level issue is not addressed in ...

The phonics vs. whole-language debate in literacy education doesn't mean anything if kids glued to their smartphones aren't encouraged by their families to read.