Many educators now accept the overwhelming evidence behind phonics instruction. But they often don’t realize that by simultaneously teaching children to guess at words, they may be doing damage ...

Most children need help learning to read, but there’s long-standing disagreement on how best to help them. Decades of research have identified the most effective approaches.

Technology is changing how we read—and that means we need to rethink how we teach.

In a science of reading framework, teachers start by teaching beginning readers the foundations of language in a structured progression—like how individual letters represent sounds and how those ...

Children must be able to read words like “a,” “and,” “not,” “now,” and “come,” said Kari Kurto, the national science of reading project director at the Reading League, an ...

McGuffey Readers, an important part of American education history, were widely used beginning in the mid-19th century and relied on phonics approaches for instruction for beginning readers.

We all want young children to be given the very best opportunities to become successful, engaged and passionate readers. The teaching of reading is constantly mired, however, in a tired old debate ...

California is legislating reading instruction to emphasize phonics as a foundational skill. Educators discuss the best ways to teach literacy in the state.