Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position ... Most of it takes place in first grade, which even in the unglamorous field of elementary education stands out as an unglamorous and not ...

Phonics strategies begin by teaching children ... prioritizes reading fluency and comprehension. I worked with his first grade teacher to mitigate these challenges. But I realized that his real ...