To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

Inside a summer classroom, Ayanna Perez wrote the letters D-O-T on a white board for King and Legacy to slowly sound out, rather than try to guess or memorize the word. That scene took place Monday at ...

The Educator speaks to a Deputy Principal about the gap between theory and classroom implementation, and what effective ...

Chad Aldeman has long been steeped in the education policy world. Yet he was still caught off-guard when he realized that his son wasn’t sounding out new words by the time he was in 1st grade but was ...

Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...