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Phonics works: Sounding out words is best way to teach reading, study suggests. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2017 / 04 / 170420094107.htm.
One second grader could read just 24 words per minute back in October; that child is now up to 62. Another jumped from 38 words per minute to 92, or grade level.
The problem, Flesch realized, was that no one had taught him how to sound words out, or “decode.” Once Flesch introduced Johnny to the rules of phonics, he was off and running.
Words fail me: phonics test just the latest assault on children's minds. By Susan Williams. August 10, 2020 — 12.01am. Save. Log in, register or subscribe to save articles for later.
Next week 600,000 five-and six-year-olds will be tested for their basic reading skills and their ability to decipher forty simple words. This is the Phonics Screening Check that was first ...
Presenter 1: When the words get tricky, phonics get all sticky, blending them together doesn't work the same. You can see that all tricky words don't look the way they should be heard. Presenter 2 ...
Phonics instruction gives children letter-sound knowledge, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves. Explainer: what is phonics and why is it important? Home ...
By contrast, science of reading includes a big dose of phonics, which is to say a kid learns the letter sounds — the consonants, vowels, the common combinations that we talked about, like “ca ...
One second grader could read just 24 words per minute back in October; that child is now up to 62. Another jumped from 38 words per minute to 92, or grade level.
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