Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

A recent New York Times article threatens to revive longstanding misconceptions about phonics. Teaching children to sound out words in a way that’s backed by science shouldn’t carry political baggage.

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...

From the very beginning, children need to train their brains to recognize English sounds. If they do not recognize the sound, they won't hear what they need to. “As you read a book word by word and ...

Amy-Louise Peach from Little Learners explores phonics and how you can help your child practice at home. You may have heard about phonics at a parents’ evening, or even from your own child on the walk ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from state and federal funding bodies for projects investigating curriculum, teacher standards and the teaching of English ...

A new scientific study that aims to end the so-called reading wars has found that phonics is an essential foundation in the early stages of learning to read, but it is only part of the approach. The ...

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been intense ...

More children have passed the new phonics reading test for England's five- and six-year-olds this year. More than two-thirds (69%) of pupils in state schools reached the expected level - up from 58% ...