Most people agree that reading is the most important skill if a student is to develop proficiency in English, math and other disciplines. Most parents were taught reading using phonics or some ...

An influential researcher in the science of reading movement is warns schools may be "overteaching" the skill.

Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17). Denise Amos says that California districts encourage students to memorize words, and believes they should instead be using phonics ...

To the editor: English is a phonetic language, so as soon as children learn letters and sounds, they can start to write simple messages. Most people go on to write well enough for practical purposes, ...

The Feb. 24 letter to the editor “Phonics the wrong way to teach reading” (The Daily Progress) declares phonics “fatally flawed.” English language is deemed “not phonic, unlike …other European ...

Meet the Letters taught children to recognize letter characters. Now, with Meet the Letter Sounds, children will learn the different sounds that each letter makes. Meet the Letter Sounds also ...

The front page story in the Feb. 23 Daily Progress (“Back to Basics”), about teaching phonics, caught my eye immediately. On the surface, phonics looks like a great idea. Just below the surface, it is ...

LETTER: Teaching phonics is not a panacea FILE - Lynnea Lamb, 11, helps her brother Deon, 5, read a book during the Reading Rangers Summer Reading Program at Boulevard Mall in Las Vegas on Saturday, ...