The author explains why teaching phonics with songs has advantages over traditional phonics instruction, especially for children with reading difficulty. A reason reading scores are so low is that we ...

“Reading Bear teaches children to read by introducing phonics principles painlessly and systematically, while teaching new vocabulary.” Jimmy Wales may be the well-known ‘face’ of Wikipedia, but he ...

In Room 254 at Hartford’s Martin Luther King School, reading workbooks and grammar books are out. Poetry is in. “A tree toad loved a she-toad Who lived up in a tree . . .” Forty young voices ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing ...

Government data has shown that in 2022-23, 30% of five-year-olds in England were not meeting the expected standard for literacy at the end of their reception year at school. Literacy was the area of ...

The law comes on the heels of a host of other literacy initiatives, including mandatory dyslexia screening and universal ...

When children are taught to read and write though phonics they have to remember many exceptions, so-called 'sight words'. In addition, the linguist David Crystal estimated that almost half of all ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. In Tuesday's federal budget, the government will be under intense pressure to markedly increase school funding while restraining ...