In this video I walk through my favorite YouTube channels for teaching accurate letter sounds and early phonics. I share the exact videos I use in my classroom and recommend to parents, teachers and ...

Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense—they've even been described as "the reading wars." In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...