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Phonics and Spelling Rules Made Fun With Catchy Rap Songs!

I'm sharing one of my favorite online resources for teaching phonics and spelling—Mr. Spelling on YouTube! His rap songs break down tricky spelling patterns and rules in a way that kids love and ...
Science Daily

Phonics works: Sounding out words is best way to teach reading, study suggests

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been intense ...
Kotaku

Curious George Learns Phonics

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Curious George Learns Phonics Curious George joins the circus in this fun phonics adventure! George is up to his usual antics, sending circus animals flying ...
Time

Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...