Those learning to read with the phonics method won't be swelling the illiteracy rolls.

Ignoring ideological wars, good teachers usually blended whole language, whole word and phonics methods.

Jolly Phonics is a scheme which comes under the Synthetic phonics method.

Critics have argued that not all children benefit from the synthetic phonics method.

In the reading fight, political conservatives have insisted on the phonics method that drills students on the sound of letters.

The first Reader taught reading by using the phonics method, the identification of letters and their arrangement into words, and aided with slate work.

Alphabet songs typically follow the alphabetic principle (though the phonics method offers variants).

Sometimes argued to be in competition with Phonics and Synthetic phonics methods.

Sometimes argued to be in competition with phonics methods, and that the whole language approach tends to impair learning how to spell.

With a foundation in phonics methods, each level addresses a single stage in a child's reading development.