The goal is for high school graduates to attain “reading levels ready for college.” The school has expected teachers to integrate literacy into their lessons since its 2007 founding.

There’s evidence that teaching kids to memorize a small number of irregular words doesn’t interfere with their reading ability, as long as they’re also receiving systematic phonics instruction.

Premier is still training teachers in how to teach lessons based on the science of reading, Smyth said. Garrison Elementary School began changing its reading instruction in 2018-19.

It’s taken four decades, but using phonics to teach English soon could be state policy. Phonics is where kids are taught a language with a phonetic alphabet by sounding out the letters and ...

1. Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though). 2. English is a difficult ...

Through no fault of their own, teachers around the United States are not well-trained in how to teach reading. Of the 16 teacher-prep programs in New York City, 12 earn a D or F from the latest ...

Teachers are embracing AI tools to translate texts, modify reading passages, and create engaging language acquisition activities for English learners. But federal funding cuts and other issues could ...

But then, he was asked to teach geography. The two subjects are technically under the same umbrella—social studies—but they draw on different knowledge bases, and distinct ways of reading ...

Sloan read another response that instructed her to “put the bread flat.” “Alright, it’s pretty flat. I feel like that’s good,” she said after pressing the bread down on the table.

LeVar Burton champions California’s AB 1121 bill, advocating for evidence-based reading instruction to tackle the state’s literacy crisis and support all students.