Submit your letter to the editor via this form.Read more Letters to the Editor.. Phonics alone won’t get kids reading. Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17 ...

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 ...

In response to Mona Charen’s Tuesday column supporting phonics reading instruction: The idea that English is a phonetic language is laughable. One symbol, one sound is a great idea. But that’s ...

LETTER: Learning to read is more than phonics Sounding out is just one tool. Lynnea Lamb, 11, helps her brother Deon, 5, read a book during the Reading Rangers Summer Reading Program at Boulevard ...

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.

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long.

In the debate over Emily Hanford’s podcast “Sold a Story,” two groups have been vocal: those who agree that teachers have been conned into believing most children learn to read without systematic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Letters to the Editor: Phonics gets kids over an early reading hump. What happens after that? Los Angeles Times Opinion. Tue, December 26, 2023 at 11:00 AM UTC. 3 min read.