MPS is equipping students with early literacy skills and confidence to tackle increasingly complex reading and writing tasks, ...

If you have high expectations a child will rise to the challenge.

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

I stumbled on the best free phonics and spelling resource and had to share. In this video I show how I use the Mr Spelling ...

To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño fears overemphasizing foundational skills such as phonics will take time away from writing, favor already advantaged children and ignore the needs of ...

Phonics is the base for learning English. Unfortunately, it was cast aside during the whole-language movement. (“‘I Literally Cried': Teachers Describe Their Transition to Science-Based Reading ...

A new approach to teaching children how to read has been implemented in schools across the country, with educators seeing a dramatic improvement in scores. Known as the 'science of reading,' this ...

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 ...

A dozen second-graders in a Brooklyn classroom echoed their teacher in a cheerful chorus one morning as she held up one card after another. “U, n, k, junk, unk,” read the teacher, Wilda Morency, at ...