Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music notation, or Morse code, or Braille, in which mastery of a set of symbols comes first.

At the end of year one, when they are five or six, all children at state schools in England must take a test called the ...

Decodable books are a type of reading material that allows young or struggling readers to hone their phonics skills by exposing them to a selection of letter-sound correspondences that they’ve ...

Both Calkins’ curriculum and those created by Fountas and Pinnell were the focus of “Sold A Story,” the award-winning podcast by APM Reports that detailed the genesis of the cueing method—in which ...