So keep playing those rhyming, sound games and reading together to explore words, expand their language and help their early communication skills. Phonics just means matching the sounds that make ...

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 ...

The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

Decades of research has shown that phonics instruction—showing children how letters represent sounds and blend together to form words—is the most effective way to teach beginning readers how ...