By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways ...

Phonics is a method that teaches children how to read by linking letters together based on sound groups. Together, these alphabetical combinations can aid children to easily begin pairing them by ...

WASHINGTON — Back in the 1980s, when Mary Pat Donoghue completed her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, “Units of Study for Teaching Reading” was a popular new program that celebrated children ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

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 ...

Books on the shelf at M.H. Moore Elementary School on Aug. 13, 2024. More than 100 Fort Worth students were identified as being at risk for dyslexia during a citywide screening program this summer.

Mississippi’s focus on phonics and high standards has propelled it to the top in reading scores, outperforming richer states ...

A top aide to Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday the city will stick with its choice of a universal reading curriculum – despite criticism from an adviser to President Bush. “We’re not drawing a line in ...

Bipartisan enthusiasm in Indiana for the science of reading has led to a historic jump in third-grade scores.