The idea that the “science” in reading instruction only supports phonics instruction has been “hard to dislodge,” said Maria ...

The conclusion of whether reading was a skill more dependent on auditory or visual cues was a standard debate until education ...

No one knows yet the extent of federal funding cuts, or if they’ll even happen. But anxiety is on the rise in Michigan ...

The ‘science of reading’ is gaining momentum across the country. But making it happen in Michigan classrooms takes time, ...

And it highlights five “pillars” of reading proficiency that students need: phonemic awareness, phonics ... visuals or sentence structure to guess at a word’s meaning.

Helgeson was nervous, she said: She’d never been asked to train high schoolers before, and the mandate — to model how to engagingly deliver phonics and foundational skill instruction — was a ...

Just over a decade ago, Cassandra Pride decided to upend her life and retrain as a high school English teacher. She graduated ...

They were big reforms, not tweaks,” she said Universities received $15,000 grants to make the changes, with core content also mandating explicit phonics teaching, routines for classrooms ...

The elementary school has a high percentage of emergent bilingual students who are learning English as a second language.