Why have Massachusetts MCAS scores measuring student learning and retention continued their years-long slide to well below ...

One member of the California state board of education, a phonics man who is married to a third-grade teacher, described the appeal of whole-language to teachers this way: "It's easier to teach ...

The science of reading is a phonics-based approach ... “Reading proficiently by the end of third grade is one of the most important indicators of future student success,” said Jeff Smink ...

North Star uses i-Ready, a reading diagnostic test from Curriculum Associates administered in the fall to help determine each ...

When you see results, you want to keep going. Mainly because this has such high stakes for these kids, who have our hearts; ...

Pennsylvania legislators are pushing schools to use the science of reading to improve literacy. But some Philly teachers ...

WHAT’S THE V CHARLOTTE VOWEL? VOWEL. THIS THIRD GRADE CLASS AT CARLETON INNOVATION SCHOOL IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A PHONICS LESSON. WHAT I’M TRYING TO READ A LONGER WORD LIKE LADDER. IT HAS.

Throughout her nearly 30-year career as an elementary school reading specialist, Christie Welsby has struggled to find material that was both decodable (able to be sounded out) and engaging. “The ...

Letters 2 Literacy, a nonprofit that tutors students in literacy and phonics, was born after seeing students in her classroom ...

They found that by third grade, the treatment group significantly ... But it’s relatively easy to do experiments showing whether phonics instruction works. In an area like comprehension, which ...

At the third-grade level, Shrewsbury Public Schools had ... making sure the kids are all reaching their phonics skill goals by the end of the year." Morse said the students who took the last ...

A grandmother from Menlo Park dubbed the “Paul Revere of the Reading Wars," she was a crusader for phonics instruction, which focuses on the relationships between the letters of written language and ...