I was wrong. It turns out that while some children will learn to read no matter how you teach them, many will struggle unless they get the kind of lessons they need. This disconnect between what the ...

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 ...

Not only have scientists long disagreed on the most effective methods, but their arguments have fuelled a decades-long, politicised “reading war” over how to teach children to read English.

While there's no substitute for a qualified teacher, we've asked the experts for their best tips for parents who want to help teach their kids to read at home, using structured literacy.