Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
For many adults, reading is a fact of life often taken for granted. For them, there’s usually a great distance between learning to read and being a reader, but for young students, reading ...
Key points All first graders should show development in two critical phases, Phases 3 and Phase 4, leading to automatic word reading and spelling. In Phases 3 and 4 writing samples, you see evidence ...
What are we missing?” A nationwide gap in phonics instruction galvanized the science of reading movement. But as the movement ...
A new nationwide study has found that children entering first grade in 2013 had significantly better reading skills than similar students had just 12 years earlier. Researchers say this means that in ...
Fourth-grade teacher Angela Mosca moved around her classroom at Mary Eyre Elementary School in Salem one April morning as her students followed along with the day's assigned reading. She read a ...
There’s been a lot of concern about phonics instruction in recent months, sparked by an illuminating new audio documentary. But there’s another aspect of reading—comprehension—that is equally crucial, ...
Reading comprehension instruction doesn't line up with what the evidence shows can work—and it goes on way too long. A recent meta-analysis confirms that it’s best to teach reading comprehension ...