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 ...

One two-month study and thousands of hours of research and development later, Preschool Prep Company™ brings to the market a line of products that help young children master letters, numbers ...

For example, the ability for someone to see that the word "rat" is a combination of the sounds each of the letters "r," "a" and "t." Phonics: Reading instruction that teaches students the sounds ...

The survey of literacy concepts was administered by a University of Alberta professor and designed to highlight how equipped ...

One two-month study and thousands of hours of research and development later, Preschool Prep Company™ brings to the market a line of products that help young children master letters, numbers ...

The state government has announced a new program that will be delivered as part of mandatory phonics education across ...

The strategies align with decades of research that shows that in addition to broadening their vocabulary, "children need to understand phonics, or the relationship between letters and the sounds ...

It also found that instruction was more effective when sounds and letters were combined. On the surface, adding letters to sounds might seem identical to teaching phonics. But some reading experts say ...

Just months before the government introduces regular phonics testing in primary schools, a UK study claims similar tests in England made little difference to children's reading achievement. The ...

Systematic synthetic phonics is a structured approach explicitly teaching the relationship between sounds and letters to read words. We’ve trialled this approach over the past couple of years at ...

Initially, they encourage students to guess at words rather than use their phonics skills, researchers say, which can prevent children from mapping the letter-sound connections that allow them to ...

By Juliet Aguiar DUUGBARTEY Two hundred teachers within the Ahanta West municipality of Western Region have participated in a four-day training on phonics, organised by Yinson Ghana. The training ...