California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

Seeing your child mix up b and d when reading or writing can feel alarming. But here’s the good news: it’s incredibly common ...

In short, synthetic phonics means children learn the sounds of letters and of combinations of letters and use them to decode words. A seven-year study based on schools in Clackmannanshire, carried out ...

That's why overemphasis on phonics instruction in reading leaves out crucial steps to mastering comprehension. Why phonics falls short if reading comprehension is the goal - Los Angeles Times ...

LETTER: Learning to read is more than phonics Sounding out is just one tool. Lynnea Lamb, 11, helps her brother Deon, 5, read a book during the Reading Rangers Summer Reading Program at Boulevard ...

At this stage, every letter has one sound. To help your child, it’s a good idea to get to know the exact letter sounds as they are pronounced in modern phonics.

We make up for the shortfall by using a combination of two or more letters to make the sounds that don't have a unique letter of their own, e.g., /th/ or /oo/. If we had a simplified spelling ...

Sounds like déjà vu. Re: IdRaHaJe Christian Camp and Retreat Center in Bailey. This faith-based camp has been in operation for 75 years and is scheduled to open for the season in June.

As the Feb. 24 article states, Louisiana is using the "science of reading" emphasizing phonics and teaching students to "decipher words letter by letter and sound by sound." ...

So, letters have sounds, they come together to make a word. Words are letters and sounds that come together and they have meaning. And then you can put words together to make a sentence.