Recent coverage highlights two complementary approaches to building early literacy: pretend play that fosters creativity, communication, and problem-solving, and structured phonics instruction ...

Phonics and sight words are two essential tools for building early reading skills, each serving a unique purpose. Phonics teaches children to decode words by connecting letters to sounds, while sight ...

Regarding the March 12 editorial “Yes, U.S. children should be hooked on phonics”: I am a volunteer with Reading Partners, tutoring children at elementary schools in D.C. to bring them to grade-level ...

Sometimes — not often, but sometimes — one person can have a life-changing impact on the wellbeing of millions of people. Marion Joseph, who died nearly a year ago at age 95, was one of those people.

NEW YORK - New York City Public Schools are embarking on a dramatic shift on how they teach reading, seeking to rectify a literary crisis. Half of students in grades 3-8 fail reading tests, and ...

Joel Kitchens on a bill that requires the "phonics" method to teach children how to read. Rep. Joel Kitchens, R-Sturgeon Bay, discusses a bill he co-authored that requires a reading method called ...

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 ...

I think all Iowa schools should return to teaching reading by the time-tested phonics method. For the past few decades the erroneous “whole language” method to teach reading has held sway in Iowa and ...