The author explains why teaching phonics with songs has advantages over traditional phonics instruction, especially for children with reading difficulty. A reason reading scores are so low is that we ...

In what appears to be a first, the state Department of Public Instruction is endorsing "explicit phonics instruction" as a critical component in teaching children to read. And the department said ...

“Reading Bear teaches children to read by introducing phonics principles painlessly and systematically, while teaching new vocabulary.” Jimmy Wales may be the well-known ‘face’ of Wikipedia, but he ...

In Room 254 at Hartford’s Martin Luther King School, reading workbooks and grammar books are out. Poetry is in. “A tree toad loved a she-toad Who lived up in a tree . . .” Forty young voices ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing ...

The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six ...

Government data has shown that in 2022-23, 30% of five-year-olds in England were not meeting the expected standard for literacy at the end of their reception year at school. Literacy was the area of ...

The law comes on the heels of a host of other literacy initiatives, including mandatory dyslexia screening and universal ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. In Tuesday's federal budget, the government will be under intense pressure to markedly increase school funding while restraining ...