When it comes to reading, middle school students need foundational literacy instruction that respects age, cognitive ...

The extent of South Africa's literacy crisis has been laid bare with the Department of Basic Education's new early learning reading benchmarks, covering 11 official languages. The benchmarks, which ...

Learning to read, unlike speaking, walking, or understanding the world around us, is not something humans do naturally.

For more than a century, parents and teachers have been engaged in “reading wars” between those who favor phonics (teaching ...

First-grader Mary Greer shows her work during a phonics-based reading lesson at Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) The “reading wars” that ...

At Gilles-Sweet Elementary in Fairview Park, Ohio, kindergarten teacher Keri Laughlin combines movement and phonics to help her students build the foundational literacy skills they’ll need as readers.

In a new book, the former schools minister Nick Gibb defends a strong, if controversial legacy. By Sarah Waite It’s fitting that the new book by former Conservative schools minister Nick Gibb reads ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...

If students don’t learn how to read in school, not much else that happens there is going to matter. This might be a harsh way of putting it, but it’s the truth. Being unable to read makes it nearly ...

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long. Through ...