Boys are as good as girls at reading and spelling and even overtake them when taught quickly and systematically by synthetic phonics, a conference will be told next week. The more traditional teaching ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called “systematic ...

Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. In fact, controversies are emerging about an ...

A first-grade student at Prodeo Academy's St. Paul campus tapping out a word he's been asked to write during a routine literacy assessment. Credit: MinnPost photo by Erin Hinrichs As educators ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA) is a forum for original research in the fields of phonetic theory and ...

I have been teaching for 34 years, in three states and at all socio-economic levels. In the 1980s, phonics-based teaching for reading was falling from favour. The hierarchy encouraged a whole-word ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Community News. Followed categories will be added to My News. Walking through classrooms at Minden State School however, it is a phrase you hear quite often.