“There just isn’t enough time in the day to teach everything our students need to know.” This is a common refrain among teachers, especially in elementary grades where we are required to teach content ...

The government has announced an updated Teaching and Learning Model for all state schools, to be implemented from next year, which focuses on what’s known as “explicit teaching”, with students from ...

The International Literacy Association has put out a new brief endorsing “systematic and explicit” phonics in all early reading instruction. “English is an alphabetic language. We have 26 letters.

“I can’t tell you the number of kids who have gone from class clown to school captain just because they learned to read,” he tells Inquirer. “We focus on direct instruction when it comes to teaching ...