Then they learn how letters combine to make new sounds (such as SH), and move on to longer words and new reading skills. This guide is especially for parents and carers to explain how phonics work ...

Clearly, decoding is an important and fundamental reading skill. So why don’t we test for it in the United States? England does. Starting in 2012, the Brits started giving a phonics check to all ...

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

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

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading ...

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

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 ...

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