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.

Students at R. Brown McAllister Elementary School use exercises in phonemic awareness—the ability to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—during literary instruction on March 19, 2025, in ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the appropriate role of phonics in reading instruction? The role of phonics in reading instruction is often debated: how big, how small, and how should it be ...

Since 2010, five- and six-year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics.” “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise ...

Government data has shown that in 2022-23, 30% of five-year-olds in England were not meeting the expected standard for literacy at the end of their reception year at school. Literacy was the area of ...

Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from government agencies to investigate curriculum, teacher standards, spelling and the orientation and education of ...

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...

Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17). Denise Amos says that California districts encourage students to memorize words, and believes they should instead be using phonics ...