When I was younger I decided to learn Greek. I learnt the letter-sound correspondences and could say the words – the sounds, that is. But although I could and still can decode these words, I can’t ...

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.

Phonics helps teach children how to merge separate sounds together to make it one word. from www.shutterstock.com The efficacy of phonics as a method of teaching has been debated for several decades, ...