Many science of reading movement supporters call for more explicit instruction on foundational reading skills like phonics and ditching an instructional ... of concepts they are expected to know at ...

Letters 2 Literacy, a nonprofit that tutors students in literacy and phonics, was born after seeing students in her classroom ...

Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position ... Most of it takes place in first grade, which even in the unglamorous field of elementary education stands out as an unglamorous and not ...

Phonics means explicitly teaching children ... the face of evidence that reading difficulties present by the end of first grade are highly consistent and persistent. It also contradicts research ...

This guide is especially for parents and carers to explain how phonics work and we've made these short videos to help you help your child learn to read. The first key skill in phonics is to learn ...

As the "science of reading" movement has spread, predictable texts for beginning readers have come under fire.

The emergent reader program provides Kindergarten and first grade children a time to build foundational reading skills needed to become successful readers, like phonemic awareness, phonics, letter and ...

While working as a school volunteer five years ago, Kihei-Wailea Rotary Club member Kit Hawkins was alarmed by the number of ...

Teachers may throw in some of that instruction, often called “phonics,” but they’re guided ... I was given advance access to the first two episodes of the series, which are being released ...

A grandmother from Menlo Park dubbed the “Paul Revere of the Reading Wars," she was a crusader for phonics instruction, which focuses on the relationships between the letters of written language and ...

Throughout her nearly 30-year career as an elementary school reading specialist, Christie Welsby has struggled to find material that was both decodable (able to be sounded out) and engaging. “The ...

Imagine waking up for the first day of middle school and discovering you’ve already missed class — for more than half the ...