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 ...

Why aren’t our third-grade students able to read? I’ve been asked this question many times by constituents, and as an elementary school teacher I believe the answer may be as simple as one word: ...

"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 ...

Melvine Groves, inspired by her years of being an educator and her desire to get youngsters ready for reading, shares a "Workbook for Basic Phonics" (published by Xlibris). This book gives added ...

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 ...

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 ...

Children can pass the phonics test with just a basic knowledge of the government's preferred system for learning to read, research suggests. Six-year-olds have to read aloud 20 real words and 20 ...

Children can pass the phonics test with just a basic knowledge of the government's preferred system for learning to read, research suggests. Six-year-olds have to read aloud 20 real words and 20 ...