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

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 ...

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

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

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 ...

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In what appears to be a first, the state Department of Public Instruction is endorsing "explicit phonics instruction" as a critical component in teaching children to read. And the department said ...

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...