Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

So keep playing those rhyming, sound games and reading together to explore words, expand their language and help their early communication skills. Phonics just means matching the sounds that make ...

For those learning English, that roadmap may look very different. In recent years, there have been calls across the country to focus more on phonics — learning how to sound out syllables in words — ...

Phonics teaching covers first the most common relationships between letters and sounds as they can be used to read many new words. Then it covers some of the less frequent relationships.

Some teachers and advocates objected to a plan to require phonics instruction in K-12 schools. The latest deal makes it optional.