A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

Melvine Groves, inspired by her years of being an educator and her desire to get youngsters ready for reading, shares a "Workbook for Basic Phonics" (published by Xlibris). This book gives added ...

In her June 22, 2005 letter to the editor, “Seeing Journalistic Bias in Reading Coverage,” Marsha Kessler accuses Education Week of being “anti-phonics.” It is not clear to me what exactly she means ...

Children can pass the phonics test with just a basic knowledge of the government's preferred system for learning to read, research suggests. Six-year-olds have to read aloud 20 real words and 20 ...

A good many public figures maintain that the way to raise reading scores is to require that all children learn reading by the method known as “phonics.” ‘He had frogtank where he had hidden it,” reads ...

Literacy lessons are embedded in every academic class. Even in biology. By Sarah Mervosh MEMPHIS — For much of his life, Roderick, a high school junior, did not enjoy reading. As a boy, he trudged ...

Meet the Letters taught children to recognize letter characters. Now, with Meet the Letter Sounds, children will learn the different sounds that each letter makes. Meet the Letter Sounds also ...

In a bid to rescue children from reading and learning difficulties which is one of the major problems most Ghanaian youths are battling with, REMALJ Jolly Clinic, an NGO has moved to organize a 2-day ...

Children can pass the phonics test with just a basic knowledge of the government's preferred system for learning to read, research suggests. Six-year-olds have to read aloud 20 real words and 20 ...