Los Angeles Times

How do you teach phonics? Use this reading activity to pair letters and sounds with your child

Phonics is a method that teaches children how to read by linking letters together based on sound groups. Together, these alphabetical combinations can aid children to easily begin pairing them by ...
Time

Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
Education Week

Researchers Created a Phonics Program With ‘Dramatic’ Results. How It Works

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.
The Conversation

Phonics isn’t working – for children’s reading to improve, they need to learn to love stories

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Cathie Wallace is ...