It expanded universal free preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds, scheduled daily two-hour literacy blocks in the early ...

Even though it’s the dog days of summer vacation, many schools across the country are getting ready to bring students back into the classroom — and that means giving serious thought to the best ways ...

Phonics is a method that teaches children how to read by linking letters together based on sound groups. Together, these alphabetical combinations can aid children to easily begin pairing them by ...

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...

Here, Primary Teacher April Dowdall has shared some of the resources she uses in her class to give parents some tips on how to teach phonics to younger kids at home. These videos were made for the ...

Hooked on Phonics has been ranked the best learn-to-read program for 2026 by Top Consumer Reviews, recognized for blending structured, step-by-step literacy instruction with both digital and physical ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

Four weeks into the current school year, kindergarten teacher Kristen Wilson assembles her army of Code Masters, a notoriously fidgety group of four- and five-year-olds whose attention she can hold ...

State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa has overseen sweeping changes to the education system. On Monday, the Board of Regents took on reading, deciding that every school district must revert to ...

A new K-2 ELA toolkit combines differentiated, hands-on learning with editable resources to tailor phonics and literacy instruction to individual student needs. The approach aligns with decades of ...