"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 ...

While research suggests early readers benefit from learning phonics in a structured ... concept called for practice worksheets, and it was a grind. “So the kids are working hard, you know ...

Education developer Learning Without Tears has launched Phonics, Reading, and Me ... reading response journals, sound-spelling activities, and formative assessment cards designed to help develop ...

At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets ... Plenty of evidence shows that children who receive systematic phonics instruction learn to read better and more rapidly than ...