The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...

"More than half of Massachusetts third-grade students are not proficient readers. Stop and take that in," write two education ...

For example, I spy with my little eye something beginning with ‘g ... same sound on each or using different sounds, depending on your child’s phonics knowledge. Your child then needs ...

Phonics just means matching the sounds that make up different spoken ... Try saying 'I spy with my little eye something beginning with…' and then the letter sound rather than the letter name ...

Play-Doh to teach phonics so they understand the relationship between letters and sounds. Dramatic play to teach comprehension ... But what if instead of beginning our literacy efforts in kindergarten ...

The key to teaching phonics well is not just teaching them their ABCs, you must know the ABCs, but it's not just teaching them, helping them to learn letter/sound correspondences, but it's finding ...

Recently, two Massachusetts families filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit targeting publishers and authors of literacy curricula ...