There’s no one silver bullet that will guarantee a child becomes a skilled and avid reader. But here are some things you can ...

Embraced by the city and then much of the nation back in 2003, balanced literacy attempted to teach kids to read not through phonics, but by exposing them to books of their choice in order to ...

Called structured literacy, this method boasts decades of research showing it as the most effective way to teach kids to read. But it’s not the way Hins used to teach, and it’s not how she ...

Each is entangled with many interacting variables, making it hard to isolate a single cause (e.g., coffee, a teaching method) for a specific outcome (e.g., heart disease, reading proficiency). For ...

“But it depends on what you’re having the kids read and what you’re having them practice.” What should teachers do with irregular words? Exactly how to teach irregular spelling patterns in ...

Nearly everyone backs the science of reading. Why did it take eight years to update the UNC System's literacy curriculum?

After spending years in the classroom, Jessica Reid Sliwerski decided to tap into her experience as an elementary school teacher and principal to teach as many kids as possible to read using a science ...

Our investigators examine how the program works and dig into the states that have (and have not) banned the specific method.

“We’ve got children across the state that are products ... The Science of Reading” is an approach to teaching reading using methods based on decades of scientific research and evidence ...