Teachers can help students develop phonemic awareness with these playful activities that engage multiple sensory pathways.

Across the U.S., schools are embracing structured literacy—explicit, systematic teaching of phonics, vocabulary, and comprehension—to boost early reading skills. Programs like Ohio’s new science of ...

When districts adopt evidence-based practices like Structured Literacy, it’s often with a surge of excitement and momentum. Yet the real challenge lies not in the initial adoption, but in sustaining ...

What does drinking coffee have to do with teaching reading? Each is entangled with many interacting variables, making it hard to isolate a single cause (e.g., coffee, a teaching method) for a specific ...

Harlyn Bell is a Special Education Teacher and Nashville resident. Since 2017, our country’s education spending has increased by over $1 trillion dollars; however, national reading and writing scores ...

Meet Otis. He’s eight years old and until recently he didn’t want to read or write. Then his teacher changed the way she taught and things began to improve. After a few weeks, Otis (not his real name, ...

The Fall 2021 PALS Report found that reading skills in young learners are at a 20-year low. Over the past three years, reports have shown there had been little growth in reading and in some cases, ...

A computer screen shows some of the tricky spelling rules that Ann Lawyer, a teacher at Cradle to Career Literacy Center in Emporia, shared with one of her students during a recent online lesson.

A new feature spotlights how multisensory instruction—engaging sight, sound, movement, and touch—can strengthen phonemic awareness and letter-sound connections in kindergarten. The approach blends ...

South Africa faces a literacy crisis, with 81% of Grade 4 learners unable to read meaningfully. Emphasising reading for ...

PROVIDENCE – For decades, elementary teachers have been teaching students to read the wrong way. The approach, called balanced literacy, teaches students to read a word by figuring out the context: ...