Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

If a word is unfamiliar it can be skipped, guessed at, or picked up from context. Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music ...

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 ...

Adult basic literacy tutoring may include teaching phonics, word recognition, vocabulary, reading comprehension and spelling.

New research led by a team from Royal Holloway and the World Bank asserts that teaching methods should improve, after discovering that global literacy goals will not be met without major intervention.

Leading Men Fellowship trains young Black and Latino men to become early literacy instructors in preschool classrooms across ...

Just months before the government introduces regular phonics testing in primary schools, a UK study claims similar tests in England made little difference to children's reading achievement. The ...

On one side are the proponents of the "science of reading" movement, a phonics- and cognitive-based instructional method. The opposing side champions "balanced literacy," emphasizing word ...

After more than 40 years of teaching children to read via phonics, Bob Books is ready to expand its reach and update its look ...

phonemic awareness (the ability to hear and manipulate the individual sounds in words); phonics (the ability to connect those sounds to the letters that represent them); reading fluency ...

Early and targeted interventions are critical in helping these students understand increasingly complex tests, a study finds.

Phonics, vocabulary, and a lesson in anatomy and Greek mythology all in one morning? Wyoming Public Schools is implementing a ...