"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long ...

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 ...

For example, students are presented with letters and asked to identify the sounds those letters make, they listen to letter sounds and write the letters those sounds represent, and then they read ...

If they learn to sound out unfamiliar words instead, by fourth grade they are expected to know 44 sounds that are represented by more than 280 letter combinations.

Inside the national effort to spread the science of reading and improve U.S. reading proficiency rates through phonics-based instruction.

The reading panel’s meta-analysis of 52 studies showed that phonemic awareness instruction was almost twice as effective when letters were presented along with the sounds. Many schools ignored the ...

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

The Fight Over Phonics Why American schools are changing how reading is taught.

She would handle letters, sounds, phonics, and decoding; I would focus on comprehension, generally trying to make the best of what I was sure would be meager literacy gruel she served up.

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