Whatever your motivation, the goal is the same: your child needs to learn phonics to become an amazing reader.

Maybe they are three years old and just getting started with letters and sounds, or maybe they are six and you want to make sure they don't fall behind even though "learning" is now virtual for your school. 

However, the best phonics program for kindergarten might not be what you think.

Pod After School is an alternative to expensive Pod School programs, which can be organized by small family groups at virtually no cost.

The benefits can be huge, read on to find out how to carry them out safely.

More than half of kids in the US will never achieve grade level proficiency in reading. That's more than 10 million kids!

In the past ten years, there has been new research that might explain why all these kids won't learn to read.

The root cause is the English language itself. But we can do something about it.

While advances in the science of reading continue, the literacy products used by schools and classrooms and teachers have failed to keep pace.

None of the programs reviewed in the recent EdReports review "meets expectations" overall, even within a single category. 

Even clear and established guidelines like phonemic awareness and decoding are poorly addressed by existing solutions.

Fortunately, there is a better tool in the horizon.