The extent of the illiteracy epidemic in Michigan and elsewhere demands more than simply switching curriculum materials in ...

Teachers unions oppose the reintroduction of phonics in reading education, despite evidence of its effectiveness compared to ...

Two more questions: Isn’t teaching kids to read a pivotal — maybe the pivotal — goal of any school? Isn’t reading the key to success in just about any subject in education and, ultimately, a huge ...

While fixating on teaching phonics to combat the loss, educators are "shortchanging something of equal importance: the role knowledge plays in helping children become good readers." While ...

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts ... She said morphology instruction complemented the teaching of phonics—a practice which has largely been mandated in schools across Australia.

Using pictures, symbols and objects, the children can to connect songs, voices and sounds together. These clips are suitable for teaching music at EYFS and Key Stage 1 in England, Foundation in ...

Despite the curriculum’s aim “to prepare students for any reading and writing task they will face and to turn kids into ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Gov. Mike DeWine announced new social studies initiatives Wednesday, including using history, geography and ...

The check measures their ability to use synthetic phonics—an approach to teaching reading—to blend sounds together to read words. If they don't pass, children take the test again in the next ...

November 1997, v280 n5 p128(6). Abstract: The debate over whole-language versus phonics in teaching children to read has become a heated political issue in California. A public backlash against ...