Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

Phonics is the base for learning English. Unfortunately, it was cast aside during the whole-language movement. (“‘I Literally Cried': Teachers Describe Their Transition to Science-Based Reading ...

NEW YORK - New York City Public Schools are embarking on a dramatic shift on how they teach reading, seeking to rectify a literary crisis. Half of students in grades 3-8 fail reading tests, and ...

Dominic Wyse receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust; the Nuffield Foundation; the Leverhulme Trust; and The Monday Charitable Trust. Alice Bradbury receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust, ...

Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of Educational Progress. In response, many schools are rethinking ...

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...

Even before the pandemic, national test scores showed that only a third of American students were proficient in reading, with widening gaps between good readers and struggling ones. At the end of our ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

Educators are rethinking how reading should be taught in schools. New research has highlighted flaws in decades-old methods. As a result, dozens of states have passed laws or implemented new policies ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...