For decades, many American classrooms taught reading through approaches often grouped under “balanced literacy.” ...

This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. As a progressive educator in New York City for 30 years, I thought I had all the answers. The ...

Explicit instruction is a term that summarises a type of teaching in which lessons are designed and delivered to novices to help them develop readily-available background knowledge on a particular ...

In her opinion essay, Heidi Anne E. Mesmer proclaims that explicit instruction in phonics is not enough: Children must be taught print concepts, phonemic awareness, morphology, and fluency (“Phonics ...

Spread the love“`html In the realm of early education, particularly within kindergarten and first grade classrooms, the ...

Spread the love“`html Dyslexia affects approximately 5 to 10 percent of the population, yet many remain unaware of the profound impact it has on learning and literacy. One of the critical factors ...

The International Literacy Association has put out a new brief endorsing “systematic and explicit” phonics in all early reading instruction. “English is an alphabetic language. We have 26 letters.

Spelling knowledge is essential for the brain’s reading architecture. To connect the alphabet code the reader sees on the page to circuitry enabling reading comprehension, the reader must use ...

From playful sound games to systematic phonics lessons, research shows early literacy thrives when kids engage with print and sounds in hands-on ways. Programs like UFLI Foundations and structured ...

We keep hearing about “Direct Instruction” but what does it actually mean? Flickr/Judy Baxter, CC BY-SA Direct Instruction is a teaching method developed in the United States in the 1960s, focused ...