To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

Hoping to capitalise on parents keen for kids to keep practising early reading skills during the summer holidays Phonics are now a standard part of early-years education in British schools, with ...

Wordle, the viral online guess-the-word game, has become a social media phenomenon and a source of fierce competition among its devotees. But in some classrooms, it’s also a teaching tool. The game, ...

Android games are for more than just driving, shooting, hacking, and slashing, as they can be used for educational purposes as well, and we’ve rounded up some of the best apps for that. There are tons ...

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

The “reading wars” have been around for longer than you might think. In the 1800s, Horace Mann, the “father of public education” who was the first state education secretary in the country (in ...

Phonics lessons are used to educate children on how to read and write a language There is no definite age when a child should start learning phonics although most of the early years educators ensure ...

England's schools are being told to change the way they teach children to read, with the government calling for greater use of a system called synthetic phonics. At the moment, guidance is that ...