"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

Children can learn to read using a range of methods Children can pass the phonics test with just a basic knowledge of the government's preferred system for learning to read, research suggests.

From the very beginning, children need to train their brains to recognize English sounds. If they do not recognize the sound, they won't hear what they need to. “As you read a book word by word and ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

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 ...

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Phonics is essential in the early stages of learning to read but sight words have their place too, according to a new study that aims to ...

The Education ministry has signed a Memorandum of Understand (MOU) with Chris Jolly, the originator of Jolly Phonics to incorporate the teaching method in basic schools across the country. Addressing ...

In her June 22, 2005 letter to the editor, “Seeing Journalistic Bias in Reading Coverage,” Marsha Kessler accuses Education Week of being “anti-phonics.” It is not clear to me what exactly she means ...

THE Kogi State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) in conjunction with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) and Universal Learning Solutions (ULS) has commenced the training of more ...