In fact, some of the most common English words are nonphonetic. For example, the words to and do do not rhyme with so or go.

Despite a growing international trend towards a narrow approach to synthetic phonics, experts suggest there is a 'better way' to teach reading and writing. In England, the system is among the most ...

More than 4,300 teachers from across the country have registered their interest in upskilling in phonics via a new and free ...

This required finding another teacher to share a classroom. Our first meeting was not auspicious. She was dedicated to phonics first, while I was still — albeit now a bit wobbly — in the “make it ...

People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could ...

Teachers are being instructed to dedicate just 10 minutes to teaching their students phonics at a northern suburbs school, ...

"More than half of Massachusetts third-grade students are not proficient readers. Stop and take that in," write two education ...

Victorian state school grade one students will sit a new 10-minute literacy assessment under the state's move to phonics teaching for reading, which experts say will improve early intervention for ...

Teachers will have access to greater resources to adopt a mandated phonics based approach to reading for prep to grade two students following a reported government deal with the teachers union.