To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

As Yale Teaching Fellow Erin Knapps helps her students sound out words, under the mentorship of veteran East Rock educator Jennifer Ryalls.

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...

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 ...

Each phonics lesson segment should be preceded by a phonological awareness skill lesson and should stress learning letter-sound connections. This is valuable because students should first be able to ...

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

A dozen second-graders in a Brooklyn classroom echoed their teacher in a cheerful chorus one morning as she held up one card after another. “U, n, k, junk, unk,” read the teacher, Wilda Morency, at ...

Like lots of parents in West Linn, Maggie Traverso moved to this affluent city south of Portland for the quality of the schools. And until recently, she was satisfied. Her daughter was doing well in ...