By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways ...
As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...
The law comes on the heels of a host of other literacy initiatives, including mandatory dyslexia screening and universal ...
In 1955, Rudolph Flesch wrote a simple book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, in which he pointed out that education was failing simply because we were no longer teaching reading by using phonics. It seems no ...
Past reforms led to early reading gains but without any long-lasting advantage to students.