But in many others, teachers coax beginning readers to guess at words rather than sound them out. They throw in a phonics ... more complex books at upper grade levels, they hit a wall—as Johnny ...

After all, phonics help young readers associate ... and decorating classrooms with alphabetical word walls. The books that contain letter patterns that haven’t been taught are the books in ...

South Carolina schools are going all in on the "science of reading," an approach to teaching reading that's largely focused ...

say that because cueing doesn't teach students to properly decode words using phonics, many children fall behind. Another issue in the province is the use of levelled books, which gradually ...