Isabel Simmons helps children learn about the digraphs sh and ch. Isabel Simmons shows children how to build, spell, and read words with the digraphs sh and ch. Digraphs are two letters that ...

Most children need help learning to read, but there’s long-standing disagreement on how best to help them. Decades of research have identified the most effective approaches.

Cognition How Kids Learn to Read Evolving research shows kids need phonics and whole language instruction. Posted July 31, 2022 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan ...

Anna Scretching-Cole helps children learn about the digraph "ck". Learn about digraph "ck" that makes the "/k/" sound with Anna Scretching-Cole. Practice reading, blending, and writing words with ...

US schools are going all in on phonics, but research shows that approach won’t work for every child. A blended literacy strategy can get more students reading.

Phonics had been embraced by conservatives, while skeptics saw that approach as secondary at best, and at worst something that killed the magic of reading.

Why do so many children struggle to read? And why are we still debating over how they should be taught?

To the Editor:According to the recent Reading First final impact study, children participating in the program did better than their peers in comparison schools on a test of decoding in grade 1 ...

A focus on teaching children to read using an approach known as synthetic phonics, has sucked the joy out of learning to read, according to the authors of a new study.

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And no single method of teaching reading works best. Learning to read requires a broad range of skills including phonics, learning vocabulary, memory and knowledge, and more.