Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

MPS is equipping students with early literacy skills and confidence to tackle increasingly complex reading and writing tasks, ...

Multilingual students read and comprehend more when teaching materials are culturally relevant to them, as veteran North Carolina educator Terri Ashchi ...

In early reading, first graders who are behind have an 88 percent chance of still being behind in fourth grade--rigor and ...

Kindergarten students Gabby Kim, left, and Ellie Such answer questions on a literacy lesson during Julie Celestial's kindergarten class at Mark Twain Elementary School in Long Beach. For the record: 4 ...

When it comes to teaching, educators can move beyond memorization and equip students with the tools they need for fluent, confident reading.

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...

What mystifies many parents is where and why the reading process breaks down. Although, problems may occur in any area, decoding, comprehension, or retention, the root of most reading problems, in the ...

4:16 p.m. June 2, 2025: An earlier version of this report incorrectly said teaching phonics was new to Long Beach Unified. Some phonics has been taught in the district for years, but a new focus on ...