As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

In a guest column, three researchers delve into the reading wars that often pit whole language against phonics as the best approach for struggling readers. David Reinking and David Yaden are former ...

By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

A shift toward using “science of reading” curriculums that emphasize phonics in teaching students to read is occurring in Wisconsin and across the nation. This is the second of three columns ...

Past reforms led to early reading gains but without any long-lasting advantage to students.

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...