"More than half of Massachusetts third-grade students are not proficient readers. Stop and take that in," write two education ...

The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...

People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could be that higher achieving kids like learning about the world and enjoy ...

How we teach children to read has been a contentious ... that interest them so they can spend classroom time quietly reading. Phonics instruction is still a part of this kind of teaching ...

Building a strong foundation with systematic and explicit literacy instruction in the early grades is vital. Find out How Multimodal Literacy and Systematic Phonics Instruction Transform Classrooms ...

For students to become successful readers, they need instruction based on the science of reading — direct, explicit, and systemic lessons teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and ...

Recently, two Massachusetts families filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit targeting publishers and authors of literacy curricula ...

The literacy skills that teacher candidates would learn to teach include not only phonics, which correlates sounds with letters in the alphabet, but also vocabulary, oral language, fluency, reading ...

took a course on phonics and fundamental reading skills. “You feel like you’re not good at your job, and you weren’t equipped. And that’s a terrible feeling for new teachers,” she said. “So I went ...