Across schools and homes, structured phonics programs are transforming how children learn to read. Evidence-based, systematic instruction is helping students build strong decoding skills, fluency, and ...

A cohort of ideologically-driven academics opposed to the idea that evidence should inform teachers’ practice pose a threat ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

Reactions to the report of the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy (Teaching Reading, published in December last year) have been mixed. Many teachers and parents have welcomed the report's ...

This learning experience is a direct result of explicit instruction: Explicit instruction, and not just minimal guidance, fits the teaching of foundational skills like a glove. The five reading ...

Diphthongs—those gliding vowel sounds—can be tricky for early readers, but with the right strategies, they become a fun and essential phonics skill. Teachers are using structured, research-based ...

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...