What you're saying: Though a few readers liked whole word learning, the vast majority were phonics fans (many Catholic school grads). ⛪️ Generational change: Reader Kevin S., who attended St ...

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

Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position: the proper analogy for learning to read is learning music notation, or Morse code, or Braille, in which mastery of a set of symbols comes first.

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov.

In her 2019 book “The Knowledge Gap,” Natalie Wexler argues that a content-rich curriculum allows students to go deeper, ...

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

The Lake Placid Central School District is halfway through it’s full year of implementing a new reading curriculum mandated ...

New book recommends that educators broaden focus with history and science to help students go deeper and learn more.

Nearly everyone backs the science of reading. Why did it take eight years to update the UNC System's literacy curriculum?

The Department of Education is working to align state standards for English and language arts with the phonics-based “science of reading” framework. The proposed standards revision had its ...

A bill that would have required California teachers to use the “science of reading,” which spotlights phonics, to teach children to read has died without a hearing. Assembly Bill 2222, authored by ...