The new question-of-the-week is: What is the appropriate role of phonics in reading instruction? The role of phonics in reading instruction is often debated: how big, how small, and how should it be ...

To the editor: Your editorial on reforming reading instruction highlighted what a disaster “whole language” has been for literacy in our public schools. This movement decades ago to step away from ...

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In a shift away from whole language-based approaches favoured across the sector, Canberra Goulburn Catholic Education has introduced a new policy on reading instruction, which will require all primary ...

Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

As educators and families search for ways to improve early literacy outcomes, the Scott County Library System is expanding a ...

How best to teach kids to read is a worldwide conversation – underscored recently in Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, by award-winning American Public Media investigative ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Andrea Piacquadio/Pexels, CC BY Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach ...