PBS

Vowel Digraphs | Letters and Sounds

Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9". Our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia. I'm one of the second grade teachers at The Soulard School, and here for "Teaching in Room 9", this time around ...
PBS

Phonemic Awareness - Consonant Digraphs | Letters and Sounds

(cheerful music) - Good afternoon, campers. Welcome back to Teaching In Room 9, our Summertime edition. My name is Julia. I'm a second grade teacher at the Seward school, but here for teaching in room ...
The Conversation

Explainer: what is phonics and why is it important?

Hua-Chen Wang does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...
The Conversation

Isolated phonics lessons aren’t working: here’s a better way to teach young children to read and write

Dominic Wyse receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust for his centre The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy, he also receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. In recent years he has received ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

LETTER: Teaching phonics is not a panacea

LETTER: Teaching phonics is not a panacea FILE - Lynnea Lamb, 11, helps her brother Deon, 5, read a book during the Reading Rangers Summer Reading Program at Boulevard Mall in Las Vegas on Saturday, ...
Education Week

Influential Reading Group Makes It Clear: Students Need Systematic, Explicit Phonics

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 letters.
The New York Times

In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...