Phonics instruction is still a part of this ... "leaves children ill-prepared to tackle more difficult texts, without illustrations, as they get older." The wave of reading laws calling for ...

Remember those phonics songs from elementary school that ... but his tastes run more toward beautifully drawn illustrations of animals for (we’re hoping) adults as well as kids.

“Phonics instruction needs to be lean and ... while predictable books are designed to give emerging readers “support” from illustrations and repetitive sentence structures.

We, too, worry about schools not effectively teaching what many believe is the building block of reading instruction, phonics. That needs to be corrected. But phonics, which has made its way to ...

The efficacy of phonics as a method of teaching has been debated for several decades, and has recently come back to the forefront of public debate. Scientific studies have repeatedly found that ...