The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not ...

Phonics theory takes exactly the opposite position ... Most of it takes place in first grade, which even in the unglamorous field of elementary education stands out as an unglamorous and not ...

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

But if they don't have a comfortable familiarity with the letters at the beginning of first grade, there really isn ... You can't drill and skill phonics, that won't work. Phonics, just like ...

The national NAEP reading assessment, first delivered in fourth grade, suffers from the same issue. In contrast, England’s phonics check is specifically concerned with one key reading skill — decoding ...

I was a fully competent reader before I started first grade and way ahead of the rest of the class." Young Trib reader: Cliff N. started learning phonics in second grade in 1957. "By the end of ...