Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are grounded in science and tested by expert educators.

In the late 1980s, California was among the leading proponents of “whole language” reading education theory that abandoned the traditional tool of using phonics in which children string together ...

Education researchers have been urging schools to invest their $120 billion in federal pandemic recovery funds in tutoring. What researchers have in mind is an extremely intensive type of tutoring, ...

"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 ...

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 ...