By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways ...

In the late 1980s, California was among the leading proponents of “whole language” reading education theory that abandoned the traditional tool of using phonics in which children string together ...

Madam Mabel Kyeraah Twum, the Intellectual School Quiz Mistress has stated that teaching Jolly Phonics at the preschool level, helps boost writing and reading skills in pupils. Madam Twum said Jolly ...

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 ...

Past reforms led to early reading gains but without any long-lasting advantage to students.

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...

As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature. Ari Cotton, ...