We’re exploring the declining skills and flagging enthusiasm for reading among American youth. One key cause can be traced back to how kids are taught to read in the earliest grades. Classic reading ...

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 ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

The fall marks the start of the second school year since Ohio mandated a shift toward phonics-based reading instruction.

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 ...