It can teach phonics and help children develop a sense of independent reading, which, in turn, helps them become better readers.

Overall, children who are directly taught phonics are better at reading, spelling and comprehension.

Teachers are ill-equipped to teach phonics with ease.

It is a far cry from deciding if one should teach phonics or whole language.

First marketed widely in the 1990s, it used a particular instructional design to teach letter-sound correlations (phonics) as part of children's literacy.

Yet, inside there are inmates playing a board game that teaches phonics, while others head for study sessions with Bibles in hand.

Synthetic phonics is a method employed to teach phonics to children when learning to read.

"You can't just teach a kid phonics."

The whole-language approach also teaches phonics, but more implicitly, in the context of stories meant to engage.

If you said that you wanted to teach phonics, they said that you hated children.