As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

Restoring literacy demands we treat reading as more than a skill, but as a gateway to wisdom and understanding.

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

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

Hua-Chen Wang does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. When Esti Iturralde’s daughter Winnie was in first grade, the girl struggled with learning to read. Like most parents, Iturralde blamed ...