Over three million web sites related to phonics exist on the World Wide Web. Some are very useful to teachers; others are less so. Many are commercial sites that describe/promote programs and products related to material available for teaching phonics in school or at home. Others are more informational. Various sites contain research summaries, phonics facts (such as rules governing syllabication and accent), ideas for teaching discrete phonics elements, worksheets and activities, assessment suggestions, book reviews, and all sorts of related information.

In addition to commercial web sites–which are often very informative as well as promotional–teachers can use such web sites as:

www.phonicsbulletin.info  
This is the website of the phonics Special Interest Group (SIG) of the International Reading Association. It contains articles, reviews of books and instructional programs, links to related web sites, research references, and other information related to teaching phonics.

www.reading.org
IRA is the largest professional organization in the world concerned with teaching reading.

www.ncte.org
The National Council for Teachers of English is another professional organization concerned with teacher’s concerns regarding children’s literacy development.

www.ed.gov
 The United States Office of Education deals with all things educational. Typing the word “phonics” in the search engine will provide a plethora of information sources on different aspects of the subject. Two sites within the USOE web site–www.ed.gov/nclb and www.ed.gov/readingfirst--provide information on No Child Left Behind and Reading First, respectively, including information related to the role of phonics in those programs.

www.eric.ed.gov
ERIC–The Educational Resources Information Center contains over a million citations related to education, including thousands of phonics references on research, professional articles, curriculum development issues, approaches to teaching instructional strategies, assessment, and other theoretical and practical dimensions of phonics as part of children’s educational lives. 

Summaries of research related to phonics instruction can be found at many web sites, including:
www.projectpro.com/ICR/Research/Phonics/Summary.htm
www.literacytrust.org.uk
www.indiana.edu/~reading/phonics/d8/rbb.html

www.nrrt.org
One of several comprehensive sites, the site of the National Right to Read Foundation contains information ranging from theoretical dimensions of phonics (such as policy questions and arguments on the relative merits of different approaches) to practical questions (such as the nuts and bolts of helping children learn to master the orthographic elements of their language). 

www.pbskids.org
The web site of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting offers practical ideas for teaching phonics. 

State departments of education—for example, www.cde.ca.gov--devote sections of their web sites to reports and ideas related to phonics.

Some school systems–for example, www.madison.k12.wi.us/tnl/langarts/phonics--post practical ideas for teachers to use.

In short, the Internet is an incredibly productive source of information about the multiple dimensions of the theory and practice of phonics instruction. As you browse (or mine) the millions of references on the Web, you will likely learn all you want to know about phonics.