then they can read whole words by decoding them from their component phonemes. "Sounding out" words is a phonics, rather than a whole-language, technique. Although the whole-language movement ...

experts have long known that many older students lack a strong foundation in reading skills such as phonics, grammar and vocabulary. “A lot of kids could very well have their basic K-2 foundational ...

“We’re being able to take kids and give them that support in the phonics process and break the reading code for them, so we see many students who come to us that really struggle with decoding.