"Teachers need space and support to respond to student needs, not top-down mandates," writes one reader. Another notes the ...

With more than 275 phonics activities, kids have tons to choose from ... songs, puzzles and flashcards. Nobody does reading quite like Dr. Seuss, and the app is no exception.

The original proposal would have mandated phonics instruction in K-12 classrooms. The latest version makes that optional.

Compared with today’s structured literacy and standardised testing, the 1953 reading syllabus was a remarkably ...

Phonics strategies begin by teaching children to recognize letters and make their corresponding sounds. Then they advance to manipulating and blending first-letter sounds to read and write simple, ...

As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not ...

As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not whether reading instruction needs fixing, but how to fix ...