Teachers have secured a multimillion-dollar deal with the state government after initially being denied a say on how ...
The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...
Over the past few years, millions of educators have embraced the science of reading, in many cases radically transforming how ...
Teachers will now have access to greater resources to adopt a mandated phonics based approach to reading for prep to grade ...
In terms of where you would put phonics, in terms of priority in the lesson, many would argue that we haven’t got time to do it. In essence though it really is the fundamental building block of ...
It’s just that memorization isn’t the route to get there. Decades of research has shown that phonics instruction—showing children how letters represent sounds and blend together to form ...
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 ...