The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading ...

A new Australian study is the first to find that morphology instruction in the primary classroom can lead to improvements in ...

In its Year one report, the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EdCom II) highlighted issues on the old and new K-12 curriculum, including its congestion and unclear competency support for ...

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

Our review is the first to show that morphology instruction can lead to improvements in spelling untaught words,” ...

"Sounding out" words is a phonics, rather than a whole-language, technique. Although the whole-language movement began in the early 1970s, the dispute about reading instruction goes back much further.

With few exceptions, education journalists have treated the reading crisis as though it’s due only to problems with phonics instruction. Meanwhile, in the relatively few schools using curricula ...