Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are ...

Marion Joseph died in 2022 and therefore cannot celebrate what at long last is happening in California to improve children’s abysmal levels of reading comprehension. Joseph, a renowned expert on ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...

A Georgia State researcher found that spelling-focused interventions improved overall literacy skills, including for students ...

Wisconsin school districts are finding successes and challenges in implementing Act 20, which requires a phonics-based ...

Kindergarten students Gabby Kim, left, and Ellie Such answer questions on a literacy lesson during Julie Celestial's kindergarten class at Mark Twain Elementary School in Long Beach. For the record: 4 ...

Can a toddler really read? A researcher-dad breaks down how the science of reading made him a believer after trying simple, ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can see ...