It started as a routine phonics lesson in the 1st grade Bronx classroom I was observing to study how students learn to read.

Math Coach Erica Butkiewicz teaches a math lesson to sixth-grade students at Pioneer School in Delano on March 5, 2025. Photo by Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local Welcome to CalMatters, ...

Dr Jane Goodall was just 10 years old when she read Tarzan of the Apes – at which point she decided she wanted to “go to Africa, live with wild animals and write books about them”. That dream came ...

Research proposing a new model called the "Double Helix of Reading and Writing" is better for young children than the latest international trend in teaching synthetic phonics, explains Professor ...

Education news and commentary, delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 newsletter. Ohio could soon join the rush of states requiring schools to use the “Science of Reading” in all its ...

Phase 4 phonics can feel trickier to teach than phonics phases 2 and 3, because there are no new letter-sound correspondences (grapheme-phoneme correspondences) to learn. This is a teaching phase ...

School years are supposed to be the best years of your life and teachers have the power to make them extra special and give you the tools to go on and succeed in life. While it may be the big groups ...