A special school in Devon is petitioning the government to make phonics testing inclusive for children who have speech and ...

Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music notation, or Morse code, or Braille, in which mastery of a set of symbols comes first.

On one side are the proponents of the "science of reading" movement, a phonics- and cognitive-based instructional method. The opposing side champions "balanced literacy," emphasizing word ...

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 ...

New research led by a team from Royal Holloway and the World Bank asserts that teaching methods should improve, after discovering that global literacy goals will not be met without major intervention.

That's why Carter and her team use the Orton-Gillingham approach, a multi-sensory phonics technique for reading instruction. According to the Orton-Gillingham website, the evidence-based approach ...

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 ...