Phase 5 phonics is undoubtedly the most challenging element of phonics to teach and learn. Here we have expert advice and ...

Read with Phonics is an app designed to help children learn to read by turning lessons into phonics games. It was founded by ...

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 ...

Phonemic awareness: The ability to identify and understand the individual sounds in spoken words. For example, the ability for someone to see that the word "rat" is a combination of the sounds each of ...

Research has also examined the impact of when different countries start reading instruction and have found no impact of when ...

In response, a number of governments, including New Zealand's, are overhauling the way reading is taught in primary school.

When I became Victoria’s Education Minister 12 months ago, little did I know I’d be stepping into a half century-long policy ...

One key change is a renewed focus on phonics (mapping sounds to letters). But an overemphasis on phonics could dampen children’s motivation to read for enjoyment and understanding. In my new ...

Reading isn’t natural for humans – but storytelling is. Using decades of data, my new research highlights the role of parents in encouraging a love of books long before children start school.

Researchers proved that these auditory skills could be taught and early studies showed that they could be taught as a purely oral exercise without letters. But science evolved. In 2000, the National ...