Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.

Restoring literacy demands we treat reading as more than a skill, but as a gateway to wisdom and understanding.

In 1955, Rudolph Flesch wrote a simple book, Why Johnny Can’t Read, in which he pointed out that education was failing simply because we were no longer teaching reading by using phonics. It seems no ...

There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...

IT HAS BEEN CALLED the PH factor and involves a family of words that are either educational jargon or crucial to the teaching of the English language, depending on whom you speak to. Phonics, ...

When it comes to reading, middle school students need foundational literacy instruction that respects age, cognitive ...

Jim Hollingsworth claims that we should be “Using phonics to teach reading,” (Sept. 4). Here is what recent research says: Children who have had intensive phonics instruction do better on tests in ...

Gov. Hochul on Wednesday introduced a framework to overhaul reading curriculum across New York State, emphasizing phonics, after New York City officials introduced similar, sweeping changes to ...

From the very beginning, children need to train their brains to recognize English sounds. If they do not recognize the sound, they won't hear what they need to. “As you read a book word by word and ...