“Reading Bear teaches children to read by introducing phonics principles painlessly and systematically, while teaching new vocabulary.” Jimmy Wales may be the well-known ‘face’ of Wikipedia, but he ...

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how the presence of a final 'e' at the end of words changes the sound of A from short to long. Through ...

The decision to require all New York City elementary schools to teach a phonics-based curriculum will make New York a national leader in literacy education. The mandate, announced by Mayor Adams last ...

A report on how young children in England should be taught to read is expected to endorse a phonics-based approach. As the final touches are put to the government-sponsored Rose review, the women ...

To the editor: English is a phonetic language, so as soon as children learn letters and sounds, they can start to write simple messages. Most people go on to write well enough for practical purposes, ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

If students don’t learn how to read in school, not much else that happens there is going to matter. This might be a harsh way of putting it, but it’s the truth. Being unable to read makes it nearly ...

"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...