The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...

Beginning in Kindergarten and continuing into the first grade. Children should be explicitly taught the process of blending individual sounds into words. From then onwards children should be ...

Classic reading instruction relies heavily on phonics, which teaches kids to correlate sounds with letters, enabling them to ...

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...