Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are ...

Learning to read is the key to education. That’s not a new revelation. Reading is the foundation, the entry point for everything else. But English is not easy to master.

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

The Department of Education has done this by implementing 'Into Reading,' a new literacy program being rolled out in elementary schools around the city. The program is changing the way children learn ...

Using phonics, widely recognized by experts as one of the easiest, most effective ways to learn to read, can help any child quickly master the elements that lea ...

First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...

YORK, Pa. — Suppose you're a parent of a toddler. If that's the case, you probably know Ms. Rachel, the beloved and passionate educator whose popular YouTube videos provide a vital service for ...

Fletcher, Savage, and Sharon (Educational Psychology Review, 2020) have raised a number of conceptual and empirical challenges to my claim that there is little or no evidence for systematic phonics ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...