Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at ...

"Teachers need space and support to respond to student needs, not top-down mandates," writes one reader. Another notes the ...

Phonics helps children connect letters with sounds, which is essential for decoding new words. When kids see parents and ...

The idea that the “science” in reading instruction only supports phonics instruction has been “hard to dislodge,” said Maria ...

It must be explicitly taught, and the best method, primarily, is sounding words out rather than memorizing ... “If you see that a majority of kids aren’t reading at grade level, and we know that ...

South Dakota officially took a step in a better direction Monday when the state’s Board of Education Standards approved revisions to English Language standards that’ll embrace the use of phonics ...