The front page story in the Feb. 23 Daily Progress (“Back to Basics”), about teaching phonics, caught my eye immediately. On the surface, phonics looks like a great idea. Just below the surface, it is ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

In 1955, Rudolph Flesch wrote a simple book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, in which he pointed out that education was failing simply because we were no longer teaching reading by using phonics. It seems no ...

The International Literacy Association has put out a new brief endorsing “systematic and explicit” phonics in all early reading instruction. “English is an alphabetic language. We have 26 letters.

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds. Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve ...

In response to Mona Charen’s Tuesday column supporting phonics reading instruction: The idea that English is a phonetic language is laughable. One symbol, one sound is a great idea. But that’s not ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

whole-language theory holds that learning to read and write English is analogous to learning to speak it—a natural, unconscious process best fostered by unstructured immersion. In an atmosphere rich ...

The best way to build knowledge is to immerse children in social studies, science, and the arts — the very subjects that have been marginalized to make more time for comprehension skill practice, ...

Have your kids come home singing their ABCs to a familiar tune - but one that somehow sounds just a bit off? You're not imagining it: the alphabet song is changing. The original song most of us grew ...

A part of the brain that maps letters to sounds can acquire a second, visually distinct alphabet for the same language, according to a study of English speakers. The research challenges theoretical ...