Julia uses an anchor chart, songs and whole brain teaching to review the 7 syllable types. Julia reviews previously learned skills. Then she uses an anchor chart, songs, and whole brain teaching to ...

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds. Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

KENTWOOD, Mich. (WOOD) — In the middle of the school day, in the middle of the week, 8-year-old Aakera came bursting through familiar doors to a classroom at Challenger Elementary in Kentwood. She is ...

Lynbrook kindergarten teacher Juliana Rotman stood at the front of the class, held up cards with the letters that spelled the word “swift” and asked her students to follow along using only the sounds ...

A neuroimaging study by a UB psychologist suggests that phonics, a method of learning to read using knowledge of word sounds, shouldn’t be overlooked in favor of a whole-language technique that ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

A reading block in an elementary school classroom can feel like a carefully choreographed 120-minute dance. Time is a finite resource, and it often falls to teachers to make decisions about how much ...

HOUSTON – There have been a lot of changes since the state-appointed superintendent Mike Miles took over the Houston Independent School District and introduced the NES model to several campuses. Since ...

Genetics, audio processing and environment can all impact how our brains connect sounds to the symbols we use to read ...