New book recommends that educators broaden focus with history and science to help students go deeper and learn more.

Look Dick, look, see Jane run.” That was typical of the Dick and Jane books used to teach reading in the 1950s. It was such an unsuccessful method that it ...

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

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 ...

It is important to consider that reading is not just focused on print-based books or learning phonics from a phonics scheme in isolation. When teachers and parents start to separate these ...

Before this stage though, children have been learning phonics skills since they were ... and be exposed to that all-important modelling. Read books that interest your child, even if they can ...

Nonetheless, the juxtaposition of joyous whole-language learning and boring phonics is at the heart of the whole-language ethos. In his 1986 book about reading instruction, Insult to Intelligence ...