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

The “reading wars” have been around for longer than you might think. In the 1800s, Horace Mann, the “father of public education” who was the first state education secretary in the country (in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Did you know two-thirds of American students ...

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 ...

Phonics is a cornerstone skill, both in the context of the Science of Reading as well as across curricula. If students do not have the basic ability to read words on a page, any other instruction a ...

So you can read. But how? People learn to talk simply through listening — to our parents talking to us and to each other, to the TV talking to the ether, to strangers on the street. But that’s not how ...