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 ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

The interests of able readers are being threatened by an insistence primary school pupils are taught to read using phonics, an academic has said. The Department for Education wants English schools to ...

Katina Zammit is affiliated with the Australian Literacy Educators Association. When I was younger I decided to learn Greek. I learnt the letter-sound correspondences and could say the words – the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Of all the debates in education, none are quite as absurd as the reading wars. On the one hand there are those who advocate for a phonics ...

Literacy lessons are embedded in every academic class. Even in biology. By Sarah Mervosh MEMPHIS — For much of his life, Roderick, a high school junior, did not enjoy reading. As a boy, he trudged ...