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 ...

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

Schools are working now to overhaul literacy teaching to comply with a new state law, the Read Act. A visit to one Minnesota ...

A new study published in Acta Psychologica has found that handwriting provides significant advantages over visual learning ...

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

I Spy is a classic activity to get children thinking about the different sounds that start words. Try saying 'I spy with my little eye something beginning with…' and then the letter sound rather ...