Mike DeWine has been pressing to use the phonics-based science of reading ... Now, he’s targeting preschools and younger children, this time with a carrot and no stick. DeWine and the state ...

Aldeman: Having students read a list of 40 words — some real, some not — and pass with an 80 or better has driven dramatic increases in performance.

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 ...

they try to get children to familiarize themselves with a limited set of simple words (to memorize them, phonics people would say, like trick ponies), not to use their knowledge of letters and ...

As Dr Neville Brown, Britain’s oldest teacher and a pioneer in dyslexia education, celebrates his 90th birthday, he uses this ...

ALBANY — Phonics is king again ... explicitly teaching the sounds of every letter and letter combination. Many children eventually figure out the letter sounds on their own, but a significant ...

November 1997, v280 n5 p128(6). Abstract: The debate over whole-language versus phonics in teaching children to read has become a heated political issue in California. A public backlash against ...