Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

5. There is no single effective teaching strategy. We have to use them all. Diana Wolff, Rancho Palos Verdes.. To the editor: I am so happy that phonics will be a focus in California schools again ...

Letters to the Editor: Phonics gets kids over an early reading hump. What happens after that? A teacher works with sixth- and seventh-graders on a phonics lesson in Poway, Calif., in January 2020.

Instead of phonics, those programs guide students to memorize hundreds of frequently used words. The argument is that some words break the phonics rules, so memorizing “sight words” is more ...