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Phonics is a cornerstone skill, both in the context of the Science of Reading as well as across curricula. If students do not have the basic ability to read words on a page, any other instruction a ...

Restoring literacy demands we treat reading as more than a skill, but as a gateway to wisdom and understanding.

As California launches a new literacy campaign, some advocates worry that for English learners, a focus on sounding out words will come at the expense of learning the meaning of words. State ...

New research suggests that relying on phonics, a method of learning where an individual sounds out words, helps students to learn reading faster when compared with the whole-language technique, which ...

Phonics tests for six year olds have started in schools in England. But what do parents need to know about this system for learning to read? Phonics has been promoted by the government as the best way ...

For decades, there’s been an overwhelming scientific consensus on the best way to teach kids to read. But millions of kids still don’t get the kind of instruction that works. In the early 1950s, ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...

Parents are up in arms about the state of reading and writing in primary schools. Not only, they claim, are teachers preparing children as young as five and six for a new test, they are actively ...