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).

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I ...

My teaching colleagues (virtual and real) may be made uncomfortable by my critique of the inadequate teaching that is often peddled as balanced literacy, but lacks a strong early phonics ...

I spent much of the 1980s and 1990s as a New York Times correspondent in East Asia, and children there (including mine) learned to read through phonics and phonetic alphabets: hiragana in Japan ...

By the 2000s, a more all-around and phonics-inclusive approach called balanced literacy was gaining popularity as the leading theory in competition with phonics-first approaches.

We were out cycling when suddenly my son slammed on the brakes. After I almost crashed into him, ... Nothing phoney about phonics - just ask my son. By Tara Murphy. December 14, 2020 — 12.07am.

transcript. The Fight Over Phonics Why American schools are changing how reading is taught. 2023-06-06T06:00:08-04:00 ...