By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways that work best for them.

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

George Orwell once wrote that restating the obvious is the “first duty of intelligent people.” In that vein, allow us to ...

In what appears to be a first, the state Department of Public Instruction is endorsing "explicit phonics instruction" as a critical component in teaching children to read. And the department said ...

Mississippi's education turnaround involved more than phonics, requiring statewide screeners, intensive remediation programs, and Governor Phil Bryant's leadership commitment.

Basal-type programs, which structure their main reading comprehension lessons around a core anthology of short full-length ...

To the editor: “English is a phonetic language,” states a letter writer who taught reading — but, I must add, only to a point. Just a brief look at the previous sentence will show numerous exceptions ...

Bipartisan enthusiasm in Indiana for the science of reading has led to a historic jump in third-grade scores.