Lima schools Superintendent Andre Rudolph paused from a dramatic reading of “The Book Thief,” a fictional novel about a young ...

Between kindergarten and second grade, much of the school day is dedicated to helping our youngest students master phonics, syllabication, and letter-sound correspondence–the essential building blocks ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called "systematic ...

Dominic Wyse currently receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust and The Welsh Government. Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach ...

Writing in The Conversation, Professor Dominic Wyse (UCL Institute of Education) argues that narrow synthetic phonics are not effective for teaching struggling young readers. Since 2012, England has ...

Jeffrey McQuillan claims that encouraging phonics instruction will be a “train wreck” in California (Letters, Oct. 3). Yet his main piece of evidence, a 2020 analysis, is wanting. Aside from some ...

In this video, I’m sharing my top YouTube recommendations for teaching letter sounds and phonics, perfect for parents, teachers, and homeschoolers.

Phonological awareness is an important set of skills to develop throughout early childhood and primary school. It is strongly linked to later reading and spelling success. We can think about ...

George Lucas built his Star Wars movies on complementary patterns. “It’s like poetry, they rhyme,” Lucas famously said during the making of The Phantom Menace. “You see the echo of where it’s all ...

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