In this video I walk through my favorite YouTube channels for teaching accurate letter sounds and early phonics. I share the ...

Four weeks into the current school year, kindergarten teacher Kristen Wilson assembles her army of Code Masters, a notoriously fidgety group of four- and five-year-olds whose attention she can hold ...

A new iPad reading app, Learn with Homer, officially launched this week for kids 3-7 years old. Aligned with common core standards, and developed by well-known education reformer, Stephanie Dua, the ...

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.

Test scores at 66 of the state’s lowest-performing schools strongly outpaced similar schools after educators adopted phonics-based instruction, offering some of the most compelling evidence to date ...

Starting school is a big step. The CBeebies Learn app helps children aged 2-4 build the skills they need to feel confident and ready for Reception. Each game draws on the Early Years Foundation Stage ...

Teaching children to read with phonics has been a central plank of recent “Govian” education policy. A new set of statistics shows that 74% of children in the first year of primary school now meet the ...