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

Step 3: Word-level decoding practice (4 minutes). This is where students get lots of opportunities to work with the target ...

Give Year 1 and Year 2 pupils a good grounding in comprehension skills in order for them to get the most from any text with these activities, ideas, lesson plans and other teaching resources… These ...

Papua New Guinea is the world’s capital of linguistic diversity, with more than 10 per cent of the world’s living languages – but this diversity is endangered. Community after community continue to ...

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 ...

Corrected: A previous version of this story misstated the number of alternate-preparation programs that received an F or a D rating. It was 12. The number of teacher-preparation programs that teach ...