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

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 ...

Teachers unions oppose the reintroduction of phonics in reading education, despite evidence of its effectiveness compared to ...

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

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 ...

"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 ...