A panel of experts told EdSource on Tuesday that for English language learners, it’s important to balance phonics and other reading skills all students need with opportunities to grow students’ ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

October 9, 2025 - For Chelsea Duran, returning to high school for her senior year means being on high alert, watching over her shoulder for immigration enforcement agents. Controversies over how best ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

So you can read. But how? People learn to talk simply through listening — to our parents talking to us and to each other, to the TV talking to the ether, to strangers on the street. But that’s not how ...

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been intense ...

The International Literacy Association has put out a new brief endorsing “systematic and explicit” phonics in all early reading instruction. “English is an alphabetic language. We have 26 letters.

Pamela Snow receives funding from the Australian Research Council (Discovery and Linkage Programs), Criminology Research Council, Jack Brockhoff Foundation, and Pam Gunn Memorial Trust. Tanya Serry is ...

Hua-Chen Wang does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

IN ARK PRIORY PRIMARY ACADEMY a class of four- and five-year-olds sit in immaculate rows, enraptured by their teacher. As part of the daily routine at the state primary school in Acton, west London, ...