The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

I was a fully competent reader before I started first grade and way ahead of the rest of the class." Young Trib reader: Cliff N. started learning phonics in second grade in 1957. "By the end of ...

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

But if they don't have a comfortable familiarity with the letters at the beginning of first grade, there really isn ... You can't drill and skill phonics, that won't work. Phonics, just like ...