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 ...
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 ...
Teachers who've been in the field for a long time have had the chance to usher in generations of students through education — whether it's Gen X, millennials, Gen Z, or Gen A. Recently, we asked the ...
Teachers will now have access to greater resources to adopt a mandated phonics based approach to reading for prep to grade ...
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 ...
"Phonics, at heart, is basically just teaching children the letter sound relationships and it helps them to decode unfamiliar words,'' Jordana Hunter from the Grattan Institute said. "The research ...
State funding for Act 20, an already-passed law focused on literacy in Wisconsin, is tied up in an ongoing lawsuit.
California’s largest teachers union has moved to put the brakes on legislation that mandates instruction, known as the “science of reading,” that spotlights phonics to teach children to read. The move ...