As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Across the U.S., schools are rethinking how they teach reading, guided by decades of research known as the science of reading. This movement emphasizes explicit, systematic phonics instruction, ...

When students learn to read in the early elementary years, developing phonemic awareness, decoding skills, and blending typically take priority. Another essential component of fluent reading, however, ...

Seeing a child curled up with a book as they independently learn to read the words and find the meaning in a story is a heartwarming image. We have been taught that learning to read is akin to ...

Novea McIntosh is co-director of the Urban Teacher Academy at the University of Dayton. Few issues in education attract as much attention as how we teach children to read. The “science of reading” has ...

Dr. David Kilpatrick is pictured speaking at the LoGuidice Educational Center to a standing-room-only crowd of educators from throughout the region as part of the Science of Reading Symposium. The ...

Recently, two Massachusetts families filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit targeting publishers and authors of literacy curricula. The families seek class action status for Massachusetts students who were ...

On September 26, 2024, Drexel University’s School of Education brought the nation’s leading advocates on literacy, along with teachers, parents, literacy organizations, and a critically acclaimed film ...