Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

What we were missing was the really systematic and explicit teaching of all of those phonemic awareness and phonics skills, ...

Teacher educators are worried by the rise of scripted lessons for subjects like maths and reading, and say the practice can undermine good teaching.

Ontario’s revised kindergarten program asks teachers to use both explicit literacy instruction and play-based learning.

A copy of one of the National Reading Panel's work products is shown in this June 17, 2026 photo. The influential report, now ...

Spelling knowledge is essential for the brain’s reading architecture. To connect the alphabet code the reader sees on the page to circuitry enabling reading comprehension, the reader must use ...

There's a little war going on in the education community. Don't panic, there is nothing dangerous about this conflict. It is only ideological. What is the object of the division? The educational ...

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...

In a recent review conducted by The Reading League, RedThread Literacy — the comprehensive K-8 literacy program by Lavinia Group, a division of K12 Coalition — earned exceptionally strong marks, with ...

In a seismic shift based on cognitive science, two of the world's most influential teacher training institutions declare, “We are not teaching balanced literacy.” In recent months, Teachers College, ...

Over the past few years, some states have spent millions of dollars and passed new laws in an attempt to shift the way that schools teach kids how to read. These efforts take aim at commonly used ...