South Carolina schools are going all in on the "science of reading," an approach to teaching reading that's largely focused ...

Updated July 3, 2014, 10:53 AM The New York ... own progress toward mastery. Well-taught phonics occupies half of the program’s time in first grade. The rest is devoted to reading, writing ...

such as phonics, but completely miss others. These skills are complementary and need to be consistently taught, in response to development, through grade 5. 3. Instructional language should be ...

But an approach called the “science of reading” has gained ground, and it rests on a bed of phonics instruction ... that the podcast has had more than 3.5 million downloads.