On a night when some key curriculum updates were approved, the Fort Dodge Community School District Board moved into a new era of sorts Monday. Dan Altman took the gavel as president, and Dr. Zach ...

Clearview Public Schools has announced the recent purchase of a collection of books to be donated in support of early ...

And it’s happening in schools all across the state. This is the first year where schools are required to teach curriculum ...

Systematic synthetic phonics teaches children the sounds of the English language and the letter combinations that make them. It is different to balanced literacy, which includes some phonics ...

Education writer Alfie Kohn names the many policies and practices that get in the way of the most effective learning.

What is the optimal duration of treatment? Specifically, direct and systematic phonologic awareness and phonics instruction produced significant effects for at-risk readers (ie, young children in ...

It provides students of all abilities — from at-risk to on-level and advanced — a systematic and structured approach to phonological awareness, oral language, phonics, vocabulary, fluency ...

Two new studies from Texas and Florida show that students in elementary schools that use Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) exhibit greater growth in literacy skills than students in schools that do not use ...

WHAT IT HAS REALLY BROUGHT TO THE FOREFRONT. AND I THINK WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SEEN IN THE NEWS IS THE IMPORTANCE OF PHONICS INSTRUCTION THAT SYSTEMATIC, EXPLICIT PHONICS INSTRUCTION, IT ALSO INCLUDES ...

“Public education kind of as a whole kind of got away from that very systematic, explicit phonics instruction as a foundational skill, and realizing now that that’s kind of the path they ...