New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

Lawrence Public Library, pictured Aug. 20, 2015. Phonics is the key to unlocking literacy skills among Lawrence K-12 students, according to educator Barbara Mullen, and the use of other methods to ...

Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...

Wordle, the viral online guess-the-word game, has become a social media phenomenon and a source of fierce competition among its devotees. But in some classrooms, it’s also a teaching tool. The game, ...

Teachers are looking for more decodable texts for students in both the classroom and the school library.” Heidemann says phonics has always been a part of her reading strategies. “I teach a foundation ...

It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...

Readers discuss an article about a trend back to emphasizing phonics. To the Editor: Re “She Helped Transform Reading Lessons. Now She’s Backtracking” (front page, May 22): As an educator for 30-plus ...

How might a Year 7 teacher run a science class with students who have the reading proficiency of six-year-olds? How do Year 9 English or Geography teachers work through the curriculum when they have ...

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A new scientific report from psychological researchers aims to resolve the so-called 'reading wars,' emphasizing the importance of teaching phonics in establishing fundamental reading skills in early ...