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 ...

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been intense ...

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 ...

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

Hua-Chen Wang does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Welcome back to "Teaching in Room 9". Our region's largest classroom. My name is Julia. I'm one of the second grade teachers at The Soulard School, and here for "Teaching in Room 9", this time around ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. When Esti Iturralde’s daughter Winnie was in first grade, the girl struggled with learning to read. Like most parents, Iturralde blamed ...

Presenter 1: When the words get tricky, phonics get all sticky, blending them together doesn't work the same. You can see that all tricky words don't look the way they should be heard. Presenter 2: ...