Scholastic’s trade division is home to the Bob books, one of the OG decodable series, which Scholastic began publishing in ...

If we look at explicit phonics instruction as a recipe, the main ingredient is teaching students to deploy the phonics skills they are learning to decode and encode the entire word. Below are three ...

My teaching colleagues (virtual and real) may be made uncomfortable by my critique of the inadequate teaching that is often peddled as balanced literacy, but lacks a strong early phonics foundation.

A new approach to teaching children how to read has been implemented in schools across the country, with educators seeing a dramatic improvement in scores. Known as the 'science of reading,' this ...

In the letter they demand that reforms “centre on a wider range of approaches to teaching phonics and reading, enabling teachers to use their own judgement about which is best for their pupils”.

Phonics instruction focuses on building reading skills from the ground up by teaching children the sounds letters make and then how to piece those letters together to make words.

Phonics alone cannot do that. I urge teachers to build classrooms rich in both rote phonics instruction with components of other styles and methods that are right for them.

Phonics-based reading instruction is back in U.S. public schools, and Catholic experts want parochial schools to review their own standards.