Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

MPS is equipping students with early literacy skills and confidence to tackle increasingly complex reading and writing tasks, ...

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I stumbled on the best free phonics and spelling resource and had to share. In this video I show how I use the Mr Spelling ...

In early reading, first graders who are behind have an 88 percent chance of still being behind in fourth grade--rigor and ...

If you have high expectations a child will rise to the challenge.

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

A new scientific study that aims to end the so-called reading wars has found that phonics is an essential foundation in the early stages of learning to read, but it is only part of the approach. The ...

“When we know better, we do better.” There is something forgiving and medicinal about that teaching mantra. I am regularly realizing that I could have taught something more effectively or that I ...

A recent New York Times article threatens to revive longstanding misconceptions about phonics. Teaching children to sound out words in a way that’s backed by science shouldn’t carry political baggage.

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been intense ...

Dominic Wyse receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust for his centre The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy, he also receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. In recent years he has received ...