California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

A simple, straightforward interface makes these two programs easy for kids to master on their own while delivering fun, educational activities. Friendly animals peer out of five portholes in a boat in ...

An Alabama dad turned to the internet for help with his son's first grade English homework after coming up against a seemingly impossible assignment. Gary, from Gadsden, who asked that his last name ...

HOOKED ON PHONICS IXL, a K-12 learning platform that serves more than 6 million students worldwide, is expanding its phonics offerings for Pre-K to first graders. The new phonics content is aimed at ...

English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.

Pre-first: watered-down first grade or souped-up kindergarten? A gift of time or a theft of opportunity? A gentle boost for students not quite ready for school or an elitist strategy by parents trying ...

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 ...

A few years ago, I met a first-grade English learner in a bilingual program who was learning to read in Spanish. The student, who I’ll call Elena, and her mother were from Guatemala. Elena’s mother ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s a cliché that Kymyona Burk heard a little too often: “Thank God for Mississippi.” As the state’s literacy director, she knew politicians in other states would say it when their ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Cathie Wallace is ...

Decoding means to break down new words into sounds that are easier to recognise. The s, a, t, p sounds Help the wizards to make words and captions with s, a, t and p in this fun Stage 1 Phonics guide ...