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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Educator Amber Moye at City Hall: New Haven “shouldn’t be indebted to a system that doesn’t work.” Amber Moye told city lawmakers she and her fellow teachers got a glimpse of how to change the way ...

For most people, reading is second nature — it’s almost muscle memory. As you read the words on this page right now, you likely are not thinking about how you read or the mechanisms our brains use to ...

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, ...

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 ...

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: ...

A computer screen shows some of the tricky spelling rules that Ann Lawyer, a teacher at Cradle to Career Literacy Center in Emporia, shared with one of her students during a recent online lesson.