Education Week

Does Teaching ‘Sight Words’ Contradict the Science of Reading?

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...
Yahoo

Could phonics solve California's reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

Kindergarten students Gabby Kim, left, and Ellie Such answer questions on a literacy lesson during Julie Celestial's kindergarten class at Mark Twain Elementary School in Long Beach. For the record: 4 ...
Education Week

Reading Fluency: The Neglected Key to Reading Success

Corrected: A previous version of this essay misstated the title of the author’s co-authored book. It is called Build Reading Fluency (Shell Education Publishing, 2023). The first post-pandemic ...
The Conversation

Isolated phonics lessons aren’t working: here’s a better way to teach young children to read and write

Dominic Wyse receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust for his centre The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy, he also receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. In recent years he has received ...
The New York Times

An Old and Contested Solution to Boost Reading Scores: Phonics

As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature. Ari Cotton, ...
The Conversation

Phonics isn’t working – for children’s reading to improve, they need to learn to love stories

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Cathie Wallace is ...