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 ...

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

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

These days, practically as soon as kids enter traditional kindergarten, they’re expected to be reading ... Kids will have so much to do, they’ll never get bored reading stories of all kinds, learning ...

Working with kids can be quite rewarding, but it can also be rather challenging. Having a love for educating children and the patience required to work with them is a good start towards becoming a ...

If a word is unfamiliar it can be skipped, guessed at, or picked up from context. Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music ...

Missing from both D.J. Tice’s commentary and all the subsequent letters on the Electoral College issue was any reasonable ...

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.