The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading ...

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

In her 2019 book “The Knowledge Gap,” Natalie Wexler argues that a content-rich curriculum allows students to go deeper, ...

New book recommends that educators broaden focus with history and science to help students go deeper and learn more.

Nearly everyone backs the science of reading. Why did it take eight years to update the UNC System's literacy curriculum?

In terms of where you would put phonics, in terms of priority in the lesson, many would argue that we haven’t got time to do it. In essence though it really is the fundamental building block of ...

A new Australian study is the first to find that morphology instruction in the primary classroom can lead to improvements in ...

With few exceptions, education journalists have treated the reading crisis as though it’s due only to problems with phonics instruction. Meanwhile, in the relatively few schools using curricula ...

Our review is the first to show that morphology instruction can lead to improvements in spelling untaught words,” ...