Re “‘Kids Can’t Read,’ and the Education ... English language is essential to understanding how to teach reading. It’s a history of conquerors forcing their vocabularies on Indigenous ...

Today, states — both red and blue — are pass laws that emphasize the teaching of reading using proven evidence-based methods such as phonics instruction. The inability of America’s children ...

There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on ...

Part of what she learned is that the human brain is wired to speak but not to read, because written language remains a relatively new invention in human history ... who attacked teaching phonics and ...

How do you teach children to read? This question is at the heart of ... Whether or not this means the wars are truly over, digging into the history can teach us a lot about how our brains work ...

In response, many schools are rethinking how they teach kids to read. In one New York City first grade classroom, Melissa Vega-Jones goes letter by letter, teaching the specific rules that form ...

Embraced by the city and then much of the nation back in 2003, balanced literacy attempted to teach kids to read not through phonics, but by exposing them to books of their choice in order to ...

Now there's good reason to believe that one of the most popular methods of teaching reading has left many children without the basic skills for reading. What's followed is called the Science of ...

READ MORE: Science of reading: Ohio schools changing approach to teaching literacy this ... “Instead, we are going to expose kids to our state’s history in every grade, starting in ...