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 ...

What is explicit, systematic phonics instruction? There is strong research-backed evidence that students will develop the necessary literacy skills to become proficient readers by third grade when ...

Fletcher, Savage, and Sharon (Educational Psychology Review, 2020) have raised a number of conceptual and empirical challenges to my claim that there is little or no evidence for systematic phonics ...

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 ...

Everyone agrees that the early years of reading instruction are critical. But there are still vigorous debates among practitioners about how exactly to teach children to read—and new data confirm that ...

Learning technology company HMH has unveiled a new connected teaching and learning solution for literacy that combines its AI-driven Amira Learning literacy tutoring solution with its Saxon Phonics & ...

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When it comes to learning to read, new research suggests that explicit instruction -- a phonics teaching method in which the relationship between sound and spelling is taught directly and ...

University of Southern Queensland provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. When teaching students how to read, teachers are ignoring the best, scientifically-proven approaches according to ...

EdReports, the nonprofit curriculum reviewer, is shining a spotlight on early reading—the group announced on Wednesday that it will start releasing evaluations of foundational phonics skills programs.

Soon after her son started first grade at Vallecito Elementary School in Terra Linda last fall, Dawn Patrice noticed something had changed. “He started really resisting going to school,” Patrice said ...