Fourth in a series on the Great American Toy Test, reported by Miranda Kahn of WQAD-TV NewsChannel 8. Test results will appear through Friday in the Life section of The Dispatch and The Rock ...

while Hooked on Phonics’ “Learn to Read” reading kit costs about $300. The purchase follows Educate’s announcement in December of its partnership with the education software and toy ...

Federal officials, citing the findings of the National Reading Panel, have decreed that only “evidence-based” programs that include the teaching of phonics will be supported with grant money ...

Regarding the March 12 editorial “Yes, U.S. children should be hooked on phonics”: I am a volunteer with Reading Partners, tutoring children at elementary schools in D.C. to bring them to ...

The makers of the popular reading education program Hooked on Phonics were fined Wednesday by the Federal Trade Commission for sharing private consumer information -- including information about ...

chief executive officer of Smarterville Inc., a private Baltimore-based educational products company that owns Hooked on Phonics. Smarterville, formerly Educate Inc., acquired Hooked on Phonics ...

But is phonics "the good teaching method?" Knowledge of basic phonics, the straightforward rules for pronouncing initial consonants and other less complex rules, can help make reading at beginning ...

Children need more than just food and shelter. They need books as well and Hooked on Phonics is ready to help. To celebrate its 20th anniversary, Hooked on Phonics launched HOP Across America ...

Hooked on Phonics, a literacy and learning program, has undergone some major changes in the way it reaches consumers in the past 30 years. More recently the company has been focusing on digital ...