On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.

And there are so many different ways of bringing it in to match the skill level of the students, and to enhance where they’re going from. In terms of where you would put phonics, in terms of priority ...

Teachers are being instructed to dedicate just 10 minutes to teaching their students phonics at a northern suburbs school, despite the government’s 25 minute recommendation. From this year, students ...

Here comes the bride, all dressed in Q. The groom was dressed in U. At least that’s how the wedding of the Qs and the Us was performed Friday morning at Trice Elementary School. There was no quibbling ...

Dominic Wyse receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust; the Nuffield Foundation; the Leverhulme Trust; and The Monday Charitable Trust. Alice Bradbury receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust, ...