Falkenberg: ‘I feel like a spy.' In Miles' HISD, reading books is rebellion

First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district's curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly ...

The Surprising Reason Kids Can't Seem To Read Anymore

Without substantial reading skills, “the risk is that future generations will simply be unable to think as deeply and with as ...
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Phonics and Spelling Rules Made Fun With Catchy Rap Songs!

I'm sharing one of my favorite online resources for teaching phonics and spelling—Mr. Spelling on YouTube! His rap songs break down tricky spelling patterns and rules in a way that kids love and ...
Education Week

Researchers Created a Phonics Program With ‘Dramatic’ Results. How It Works

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest results.
Bay News 9

A+ Teacher makes summer learning fun through phonics

BRANDON, Fla. — This week’s A+ Teacher spent her summer making a difference at Kingswood Elementary School. Jaymie Martinez loves using phonics to help her students learn. She taught first graders ...
New Hampshire Public Radio

These NH teachers wanted to make phonics fun. So they wrote their own comic books.

Since last fall, Brittany McGuire and Jackie Benson have written 35 books that teach phonics through comics. “We have a similar work style and work ethic,” McGuire said. “And it's hard to stop us once ...
The Conversation

What is phonics and why is it used to teach reading?

Rauno Parrila's research on reading has been funded by the Social Sciences Research Council of Canada, Government of Alberta, Alberta Teachers' Association, Australian Research Council, Finnish ...
Los Angeles Times

Stanford study wades into reading wars with high marks for phonics-based teaching

Test scores at 66 of the state’s lowest-performing schools strongly outpaced similar schools after educators adopted phonics-based instruction, offering some of the most compelling evidence to date ...
Education Week

A Focus on Phonics or Comprehension? What Reading Research Should Look Like in Practice

As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...
Forbes

Clearing Up Misconceptions About The ‘Science Of Reading’

Advocates for the science of reading need to expand their view of the science and push for the adoption of curricula that incorporate it. Opponents and even advocates of the “science of reading” often ...
The Washington Post

Cut the politics. Phonics is the best way to teach reading.

So you can read. But how? People learn to talk simply through listening — to our parents talking to us and to each other, to the TV talking to the ether, to strangers on the street. But that’s not how ...