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.

After more than 50 years of teaching reading, I'm meeting more teachers who observe that many of their children "can read fluently at high level but don't have a clue about what they just read". True ...

Successful readers and writers follow five brain-based phases to learn reading and spelling in English, according to cognitive science and neuroscience. This gradual two-year developmental process ...

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