Phonics-based reading instruction is back in U.S. public schools, and Catholic experts want parochial schools to review their own standards.

My teaching colleagues (virtual and real) may be made uncomfortable by my critique of the inadequate teaching that is often peddled as balanced literacy, but lacks a strong early phonics foundation.

Scholastic’s trade division is home to the Bob books, one of the OG decodable series, which Scholastic began publishing in ...

If we look at explicit phonics instruction as a recipe, the main ingredient is teaching students to deploy the phonics skills they are learning to decode and encode the entire word. Below are three ...

Synthetic phonics: Perhaps the most common form of phonics instruction, this method teaches students to explicitly convert letters into sounds then blend the sounds to form recognizable words.

There is an emphasis on phonemic awareness and phonics in grades K-2. "It has to be deliberate and focused instruction," she said.

English as an L2 (second or foreign language) reading instruction traditionally focuses more on overall language comprehension and less on phonics and phonological awareness. While studies have ...

While the authors acknow­ledge the “evidentiary weight” behind teaching the five key reading skills of phonics, phon­emic awareness, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary, “ the value and ...