Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is part of the By the Book ...

Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

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The new question-of-the-week is: What is the appropriate role of phonics in reading instruction? The role of phonics in reading instruction is often debated: how big, how small, and how should it be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in ...

Peek inside a kindergarten, first-grade, or second-grade classroom at Midland Public Schools any day of the week, and you’re guaranteed to see adorable kiddos and a flurry of activity. What you’re ...

Senior Research Fellow, The Centre for Independent Studies; Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University Jennifer Buckingham and Kevin Wheldall ...

Pamela Snow receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Anne Castles receives funding from the ARC and the NHMRC. Kevin Wheldall has previously received research funding from various ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in England can“decode” words – has been raised ...