The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

Educators need more professional development at the intersection of early childhood education and literacy instruction, ...

She finished her second kindergarten year in public school ... The curriculum is very old-school, and they teach phonics. Carter, now 8, still has a tendency to look for picture cues on the ...

Decades of research has shown that phonics instruction—showing children how letters represent sounds and blend together to form words—is the most effective way to teach beginning readers how ...

OG focuses on explicit phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension, with a strong emphasis on the connection between sounds and letters. By using auditory, visual, and kinesthetic modalities, ...