Readers are lifelong learners! Discover how reading aloud to children can help them develop pre-reading skills such as letter ...

The “science of reading” movement has ended, at least for now, one great literacy debate: Policymakers, education leaders, and experts almost universally agree that explicit, systematic phonics is an ...

When reading English words, some children read 'cat' as 'katto', 'make' as 'make', and 'take' as 'take'.When writing, they ...

Help young learners build strong early literacy skills with this engaging Alphabet & Phonics worksheet pack! Designed specifically for preschool and kindergarten students, this resource supports ...

Phonics helps teach children how to merge separate sounds together to make it one word. from www.shutterstock.com The efficacy of phonics as a method of teaching has been debated for several decades, ...

So in our classrooms we began to use children’s names on the first day of kindergarten—from Albert to Zoie—and learned to focus on all the sounds and letters from the very beginning. In contrast to ...

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 ...

Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...

Bring your alphabet and phonics lessons to life with this adorable Letter V Beginning Sound Clipart Bundle! This collection includes 22 colorful hand-drawn PNG clipart images representing words that ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. When Esti Iturralde’s daughter Winnie was in first grade, the girl struggled with learning to read. Like most parents, Iturralde blamed ...

[Note: In this guest post, two renowned former kindergarten teachers who wrote about the extraordinary literacy successes of children in their classrooms (Feldgus & Cardonick, 1999) show how today’s ...