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.

Hermiston High School junior Maria Rodriguez goes through a phonics lesson with three elementary school students from the district.

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been ...

A student using “nonsense words” during a phonics class in Pennsylvania in April. Hannah Yoon for The New York Times ...

Learn about the tricky words in Phase 3 Phonics in this fun phonics song from BBC Bitesize.

But this misapplication of phonics is the latest assault on the minds of children and is as muddled as the "whole language" approach now being discredited. The fundamentals of that method, popular ...

Phonics instruction gives children letter-sound knowledge, a skill that is essential for them to read unfamiliar words by themselves.

An academic says the government's insistence that even able readers learn using phonics is not in their interests.

Phonics tests show progressive teaching is doomed to failure Children who learn reading by phonics are two years ahead of their peers, latest figures show. Nick Gibb, the MP and former school's ...

Decades of research have shown that phonics instruction—teaching children how letters represent sounds, and how to blend those sounds together to make words—is the most effective way to get ...

Hermiston High School students have been professionally trained in the science of reading and are leading small-group tutoring sessions with the district's elementary school students. The results ...