Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As Oklahoma students’ reading scores have plummeted in recent years, lawmakers have begun focusing on how to improve students’ ...

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Walk into most kindergarten or first grade classrooms during a reading block and you’ll hear the familiar rhythm of phonics instruction: segmenting sounds, blending words, and practicing fluency. This ...

Suffolk School Board approves multi-year support plans for four elementary schools after state designations, aiming to raise reading and math proficiency and narrow disability gaps.

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Balanced Literacy downplays structured phonics, where kids learn by memorizing letters' sounds. Is that why some are struggling to read?