As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

Phonics is the foundation of early reading, but it doesn’t have to be all drills and worksheets. Creative, hands-on games, multisensory activities, and interactive reading can make learning ...

In work that may one day narrow the gap between speedy, voracious readers and slower, disinterested ones, researchers at New York University (N.Y.U.) have determined that three different mechanisms ...

For decades, educators and education academics have argued over the best way to teach young children to read, a conflict dubbed “reading wars.” California has been deeply involved in the debate and ...

In 2011 the schools minister trumpeted the benefits of phonics teaching. But a quarter of seven-year-olds’ literacy skills still haven’t made the cut Back in 2005, the BBC reported David Cameron ...

The reading panel released a report in 2000 which showed that teaching children how letters sounded improved reading achievement and comprehension. Because of the different schools of thought on how ...