Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

Across schools and homes, structured phonics programs are transforming how children learn to read. Evidence-based, systematic instruction is helping students build strong decoding skills, fluency, and ...

Reactions to the report of the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy (Teaching Reading, published in December last year) have been mixed. Many teachers and parents have welcomed the report's ...

This learning experience is a direct result of explicit instruction: Explicit instruction, and not just minimal guidance, fits the teaching of foundational skills like a glove. The five reading ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

Dyslexia advocates from multiple states have criticised schools and educators wedded to “whole language” and “balanced literacy” approaches to reading instruction, saying “ineffective” methods were ...

People write for a variety of purposes—including recording, persuading, learning, communicating, entertaining, self-expression, and reflection—and proficiency in writing for one purpose does not ...

Diphthongs—those gliding vowel sounds—can be tricky for early readers, but with the right strategies, they become a fun and essential phonics skill. Teachers are using structured, research-based ...