This week, back to school is in full swing. And children up and down the country will be sat (well, this may be optimistic) ready to learn. In early years education, reading is key. And the great ...

Children better absorb information with a multi-sensory approach. Children better absorb information when we use a multi-sensory approach, like when we combine sight and sound. The first step toward ...

Your little one might love a game of I Spy to pass the time. It's a game you can play anywhere, either int he house or when you're out and about. But did you know it is great for their language ...

Decoding means to break down new words into sounds that are easier to recognise. The s, a, t, p sounds Help the wizards to make words and captions with s, a, t and p in this fun Stage 1 Phonics guide ...

Here, Primary Teacher April Dowdall has shared some of the resources she uses in her class to give parents some tips on how to teach phonics to younger kids at home. These videos were made for the ...

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the appropriate role of phonics in reading instruction? The role of phonics in reading instruction is often debated: how big, how small, and how should it be ...

Even though it’s the dog days of summer vacation, many schools across the country are getting ready to bring students back into the classroom — and that means giving serious thought to the best ways ...

New research suggests that relying on phonics, a method of learning where an individual sounds out words, helps students to learn reading faster when compared with the whole-language technique, which ...

That sound recently filled the classroom of teacher Keely Hassert's first grade classroom at Clifton School 17. Hassert's students were breaking the word "sock" into its three main sounds. “What about ...