Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...

Schools across the country have been shifting their reading strategies to incorporate knowledge and best practices they have learned from the science of reading. More than 30 states have written ...

The Phonics Songs plus, Grade One instruction book with songs by Donny and Marie Osmond, will be available free from StrugglingReaders.com Phonics relies on a one voice cuing system, one that for many ...

Learning is always more fun when play is involved. The Reading Therapy Center of Southern Arizona, a local organization that teaches reading to kids with disabilities, is hosting a monthly event where ...

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 ...

Amira Learning, one of the most widely adopted offerings on the market, has contracts in 10 states. Several big providers of early reading curricula and intervention materials—including McGraw Hill ...

Why aren’t our third-grade students able to read? I’ve been asked this question many times by constituents, and as an elementary school teacher I believe the answer may be as simple as one word: ...

Take care to fit phonics into each child's own learning journey, says early years consultant Marie Charlton. Despite the phonics programme's aim to empower young, would-be readers and writers, there ...

Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is part of the By the Book ...

Test scores at 66 of the state’s lowest-performing schools strongly outpaced similar schools after educators adopted phonics-based instruction, offering some of the most compelling evidence to date ...