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Roughly 70% of elementary school students in Berlin aren’t reading at their grade level. Some teachers are saying that’s ...

Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade.

Armed by scientific studies, reading experts urged a resurgence of phonics, which helps children learn to read by sounding-out words, in a way well-known to older generations. But the state's third ...

Those concepts are phonics (the relationship between letters and sounds); phonemic awareness (the ability to distinguish a language's sounds from one another); fluency (the ability to read quickly ...

As the Feb. 24 article states, Louisiana is using the "science of reading" emphasizing phonics and teaching students to "decipher words letter by letter and sound by sound." The results ...

Student scores have plunged to historic lows, but some states are turning back to the practice of teaching letter sounds—if teacher unions do not spoil the efforts first. Phonics instructs ...

"The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel letter A. It explains how ... spelling, education, phonics, word pairs Email us at [email protected] if you have ...

Parents need to know that Montessori Letter Sounds - Phonics in English, Spanish, French & Italian doesn't have any fast-moving graphics or loud bells and whistles, which makes it a gentle way to ...