From the beginning of the 2025 school year, all schools will be required to use structured literacy—also known as "phonics" or the "science of reading"—to teach children how to read. But the very ...

What does drinking coffee have to do with teaching reading? Each is entangled with many interacting variables, making it hard to isolate a single cause (e.g., coffee, a teaching method) for a specific ...

In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat ...

The Fall 2021 PALS Report found that reading skills in young learners are at a 20-year low. Over the past three years, reports have shown there had been little growth in reading and in some cases, ...

Christine Braid works for Massey University in the capacity of a professional learning facilitator. Massey University has had Ministry of Education funding to complete research that this article ...

PROVIDENCE – For decades, elementary teachers have been teaching students to read the wrong way. The approach, called balanced literacy, teaches students to read a word by figuring out the context: ...

The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters make in simple words. This is what the science of reading looks like as Hoard ...

Harlyn Bell is a Special Education Teacher and Nashville resident. Since 2017, our country’s education spending has increased by over $1 trillion dollars; however, national reading and writing scores ...

In an effort to improve reading levels for the city school district’s youngest students, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has created a new 90-minute literacy block outline for kindergarten through ...

It is no secret that Mississippi has generally not been the cream of the crop in terms of education in recent history. In ...