A breakdown of the current primary school core curriculum program for teaching children to read and acquire other literacy skills. Designations as phonics-based versus whole language were made by ...

It’s taken four decades, but using phonics to teach English soon could be state policy. Phonics is where kids are taught a ...

Then, in the 1990s, came the balanced literacy approach to reading instruction, which — as it sounds — kept elements of whole language but added back phonics.

More American schools are now favoring the “science of reading" which focuses on phonics and vocabulary building block lessons over traditional “whole language" teaching.

Three generations of citizens have graduated from our high schools with substandard spelling ability and weaknesses in writing ability. By now, most teachers grounded in phonics have retired.

The gaps were largest for teachers working with students under the age of 10. These teachers were less likely than their peers to say that they were prepared to teach phonemic awareness or phonics.

Most colleges of education push whole language, turning out teachers who are ignorant of phonics and its value and who will be staffing the schools for decades to come.

The International Literacy Association has put out a new brief endorsing “systematic and explicit” phonics in all early reading instruction. “English is an alphabetic language. We have 26 ...

Walters: Marion Joseph’s literary crusade for teaching phonics is paying off She impacted millions of California schoolchildren who struggle with reading comprehension ...

Traditional teaching methods championed by Government do not improve children's reading skills, a landmark London School of Economics (LSE) study shows.