On May 20, the agency identified “evidence-based literacy instruction” as one of three proposed priorities for grant funding ...

New Jersey’s youngest students should expect new tools in their classrooms this fall, as schools implement new laws to reboot ...

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

Only a third of American students read proficiently, according to the 2024 National Assessment of Education Progress. Scores continue to lag behind ...

Beginning this fall, the state’s new literacy plan aims to boost early reading skills through literacy screenings, ...

with a minimum of 25 minutes daily explicit teaching of phonics and phonemic awareness. The English lesson plans help primary and secondary students build their vocabulary, read increasingly complex ...

“It is not uncommon for us to hear, ‘We are doing the science of reading because the schools have adopted a phonics or phonemic awareness curriculum,’” said Katie Sojewicz, a professional ...

Now, Perry Elementary uses Orton-Gillingham for phonics instruction and Heggerty's program for phonemic awareness. It will also be adopting McGraw-Hill's Wonders for fluency, vocabulary ...

The systematic synthetic phonics method will enable students to ... grade two GWPS reading model”, prep students will be taught phonemic awareness using the Heggerty program for 24 weeks ...

Students will receive a minimum of 25 minutes of daily, explicit teaching of phonics and phonemic awareness. The union also said the announcement exposed Carroll’s apparent lack of understanding ...

with a minimum of 25 minutes daily explicit teaching of phonics and phonemic awareness from 2025, becoming mandatory in 2027. Systematic synthetic phonics is a structured approach to reading that ...

As students write using sentence stems, they are actively encoding words and applying their phonemic awareness skills, while transferring their understanding of phonics concepts. Vocabulary and ...