Lawrence Public Library, pictured Aug. 20, 2015. Phonics is the key to unlocking literacy skills among Lawrence K-12 students, according to educator Barbara Mullen, and the use of other methods to ...

As your child approaches the start of primary school, it is a good idea to play games that help with their understandings of word sounds. Great ideas for these include exploring rhymes and words that ...

Two of the synthetic phonics programs, Letters and Sounds (L&S) and Early Reading Research (ERR), used by English primary schools to teach young children to read are equally effective overall.

Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Let's reinvent the wheel, shall we? Let's ignore research and well-tested outcomes. Because we're sure we can come up with something ...

We know that many children are failing to learn to read in our nation’s classrooms. So it’s tempting to hope that tutoring by artificial intelligence could provide a solution. But how close are we to ...

Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17). Denise Amos says that California districts encourage students to memorize words, and believes they should instead be using phonics ...