Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Walk into an early elementary classroom these days and you'll likely see strong phonics instruction in action: students tapping ...

The “science of reading” movement has ended, at least for now, one great literacy debate: Policymakers, education leaders, ...

A whole language approach to teaching reading is not opposed to teaching the correspondence of a letter or letters to sounds to help sound out unfamiliar words. Nor is it opposed to learning how to ...

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 ...

Teaching reading has always been a subject of debate, a debate that involves a balancing act of multiple factors. Currently, the “reading wars” are best embodied by debates that are centered on the ...

Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is part of the By the Book ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

Peek inside a kindergarten, first-grade, or second-grade classroom at Midland Public Schools any day of the week, and you’re guaranteed to see adorable kiddos and a flurry of activity. What you’re ...

In the face of unacceptably low literacy standards in Australian schools, the Centre for Independent Studies (CIS) recently advocated a trial of the UK Phonics Screening Check (PSC) as one part of the ...