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

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

These days, practically as soon as kids enter traditional kindergarten, they’re expected to be reading ... they’ll never get bored reading stories of all kinds, learning phonics and just playing, as ...

Research has also examined the impact of when different countries start reading instruction and have found no impact of when ...

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

Beginning in kindergarten, one group got a curriculum ... But it’s relatively easy to do experiments showing whether phonics instruction works. In an area like comprehension, which is much ...

"(Kindergarten to second grade ... Third graders at the Carlton Innovation School in Salem were working on phonics one recent day."When I'm trying to read a longer word like ladder, it has ...

In the preschool years, children with consistent ... difficulty of decoding to reading for understanding and enjoyment. Phonics is a necessary step in the lifelong timescale of literacy development.

But not all reading programs are created equal. Research is clear that phonics, where students learn how to sound out individual letters and words, is vastly superior to “whole language ...

Reading isn’t natural for humans – but storytelling is. Using decades of data, my new research highlights the role of parents in encouraging a love of books long before children start school.