On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read ...

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Letters to the Editor: No, the ‘science of reading’ isn’t just about teaching phonics Gov. Gavin Newsom reads a book to kindergarteners at the Washington Elementary School in Sacramento in 2019.

Phonics, to some, means tedious worksheets and drills. But many teachers have found ways to enliven their instruction with songs, dances, and games.

1. Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though).

Source: Ghinst et al., JNeurosci (2019) Early reading instruction in the United States focuses heavily on teaching students phonics. These results seem to suggest that students may have a more ...