21, 2022, in Sioux Falls. (Joshua Haiar/South Dakota Searchlight) Phonics-based instruction could soon be a state standard in South Dakota. The Department of Education is working to align state ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has been pressing to use the phonics-based science of reading since early 2023, mandating the approach as the sole way to teach reading in elementary schools. Now ...

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 ...

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

A court-ordered, science-backed, phonics-based reading program for California’s 75 worst-performing schools cost of $1,144 per pupil per year, but increased educational attainment at one-third the ...

Seuss's The Cat in the Hat, are based on whole-word theory: they try to get children to familiarize themselves with a limited set of simple words (to memorize them, phonics people would say ...

JENNY Priestley was a primary school teacher for two decades. In September 2022, the mum-of-two wanted to take her boys to school and pick them up each day, and attend some of their activities.

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

Phonics includes learning different letter sounds ... outdated ways of teaching literacy to children despite the evidence-based success of phonetics. Locally, Sylvan Learning said they have ...

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, ...

Trine University’s literacy workshops, supported by a $750,000 Lilly Endowment Inc. grant, are an essential piece in ...