EdReports, the nonprofit curriculum reviewer, released its first reviews of foundational reading and writing skills programs on Wednesday—and none of the materials met the evaluator’s highest standard ...

Phonics is a much debated area of literacy teaching, with disagreement between the use of a mixed approach (which includes an element of phonics) or phonics as the predominant method of word ...

This look at explicit phonics instruction is not intended to suggest that all we need is phonics for all students to be successful readers. Learning to read is a complex process but research provides ...

Research has questioned the impact of synthetic phonics teaching, which was backed by a government literacy review. The government-commissioned research said synthetic phonics improved reading ...

This study examined the reading achievement patterns of impulsives and reflectives under varying phonics approaches in beginning reading instruction. The study used 170 second grade students who were ...

Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...

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 ...

England's schools are being told to change the way they teach children to read, with the government calling for greater use of a system called synthetic phonics. At the moment, guidance is that ...

Education Minister Simon Birmingham released a report today recommending that all Year 1 students in Australia complete a phonics test. The panel responsible for the report has recommended that ...

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...