The National Literacy Trust's annual literacy survey 2025 reveals that one in three children and young people do not enjoy ...

After more than 40 years of teaching children to read via phonics, Bob Books is ready to expand its reach and update its look ...

Nonetheless, the juxtaposition of joyous whole-language learning and boring phonics is at the heart of the whole-language ethos. In his 1986 book about reading instruction, Insult to Intelligence ...

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 ...

For young children, these include enjoying books, rhymes, songs and stories; linking sounds and letters together and handwriting. This leads on to phonics, which children can use to read simple words.