This may include even more targeted one-on-one instruction, testing them on letter sounds in isolation ... Michelle Hosp, Ph.D., Star Phonics Founder & Director of Foundational Literacy ...

South Carolina schools are going all in on the "science of reading," an approach to teaching reading that's largely focused ...

But Shannon D. Whitehead ... acknowledged that phonics instruction is often implemented badly. Texts created to help students practice sound-letter combinations can be boring and even nonsensical ...

More than 30 states and D.C. have taken this approach ... That’s phonics. In phonics, students learn a letter or a pair of letters at a time. That’s how most Americans learned to read.

Meet the Letter Sounds also introduces children to basic phonics rules, such as "r-controlled vowels" and "silent e." ...

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 ...

Phonics is a method of teaching children to read and spell by explicitly teaching students the relationships between letters or letter combinations (also called “graphemes”) and speech sounds ...

D.C., laws have been passed or rules have been made requiring schools to follow the Science of Reading approach. That generally means new books and new teacher training with a focus on phonics.

To help your child, it’s a good idea to get to know the exact letter sounds as they are pronounced in modern phonics ... and the simple ‘d’ sound. The common exception words for each ...

Systematic phonics instruction is essential. That is a settled issue. And essential, too, is comprehension strategy instruction, knowledge building, vocabulary acquisition, language development, ...

Phonics strategies begin by teaching children to recognize letters and make their corresponding sounds. Then they advance to manipulating and blending first-letter sounds to read and write simple ...