The extent of the illiteracy epidemic in Michigan and elsewhere demands more than simply switching curriculum materials in ...

Children from low-income backgrounds have less access to books ... that the most effective way to teach literacy is through ...

The check measures their ability to use synthetic phonics—an approach ... such as the difference in results between children from richer and poorer backgrounds—by the end of primary school.

The strategies align with decades of research that shows that in addition to broadening their vocabulary, "children need to understand phonics, or the relationship between letters and the sounds ...