Kindergarten students Gabby Kim, left, and Ellie Such answer questions on a literacy lesson during Julie Celestial's kindergarten class at Mark Twain Elementary School in Long Beach. For the record: 4 ...

A new approach to teaching children how to read has been implemented in schools across the country, with educators seeing a dramatic improvement in scores. Known as the 'science of reading,' this ...

4:16 p.m. June 2, 2025: An earlier version of this report incorrectly said teaching phonics was new to Long Beach Unified. Some phonics has been taught in the district for years, but a new focus on ...

How best to teach kids to read is a worldwide conversation – underscored recently in Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, by award-winning American Public Media investigative ...

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...

One criticism of the science of reading is that phonics can be boring. Gee Macrory, a British scholar, says that decodable ...

In its Year one report, the Second Congressional Commission on Education (EdCom II) highlighted issues on the old and new K-12 curriculum, including its congestion and unclear competency support for ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in England can“decode” words – has been raised ...

It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...