To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the appropriate role of phonics in reading instruction? The role of phonics in reading instruction is often debated: how big, how small, and how should it be ...

Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...

Experts have released robust research to show that phonics should be taught hand-in-hand with reading and writing to encourage true literacy and a love of reading, not through narrow synthetic phonics ...

The International Literacy Association has put out a new brief endorsing “systematic and explicit” phonics in all early reading instruction. “English is an alphabetic language. We have 26 letters.

'Cut phonics teaching': Vital improvements needed in how we teach children to read, say 250 teachers and academics An open letter is sent to the Education Secretary calling for changes in how children ...

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 ...

Chancellor David Banks is calling for an overhaul of how children learn to read in the city’s public schools, saying the approach many schools use isn’t working. In an interview with Gothamist, Banks ...

English is a complex language with roots in many others, and the teaching of it should reflect this. AAP A new batch of Australian five-year-olds has just started school, eager to learn to read and ...

Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...