Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though).

Columnist Charita Goshay writes about phonics making a comeback in Ohio.

It is urged primarily in balanced literacy and has become a focus of controversy. Structured literacy emphasizes the highly explicit and systematic teaching of all important components of literacy ...

Yet educators have not reached consensus on how best to teach reading, and phonics is the part of the equation that people still argue about most.

Eleven questions about phonics teaching method change answered Victorian public schools will move to a “back-to-basics” approach for teaching kids how to read under a major change from next year.

The state's worst performing schools improved after 'science of reading' reforms, using phonics, were paired with ongoing support, analysis and parent buy-in.

In recent years, there have been calls across the country to focus more on phonics — learning how to sound out syllables in words — during reading instruction. Many researchers and advocates for ...

Nearly 60% of third graders aren’t reading at grade level. A new bill would require schools to use a phonics-based approach to teach students.