After 13 years of teaching, Hillsboro kindergarten teacher Kandi Hess did not know the rule that determines when the letter g makes the hard “guh” sound versus the soft “juh,” until she started a year ...

The UFLI reading curriculum is already used in McLean County school districts, including District 87 and Heyworth.

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Are you familiar with the slogan “Talk, Read, Sing”? These three activities help children create a foundation for oral language, which is essential to reading. By building oral language, children ...

Reading time at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' new Mint Hill Elementary School. I hate to admit this, but I learned almost as much about reading instruction from four hours of listening to “Sold a ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

MANCHESTER, MI – Wedged between shelves of colorful books and a row of filing cabinets in an annex outside Manchester’s Klager Elementary School, Melissa Yekulis found her “happy place.” She’s ...

Many children enter school in California speaking languages other than English, and they learn to read at the same time that they are learning English. As California aims to improve literacy ...

On a given day in Marivel Yanez’s kindergarten class at White Elementary in Tucson, reading lessons go beyond what is in paperwork and regulations. There’s dancing, singing, clapping — and excitement.

A slow but significant change has been taking place in the early reading world over the past year, loosening the grip that some long-used, but unproven, instructional techniques have held over the ...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...

In this video I share my favorite teacher tested websites and YouTube channels to help your little one practice letters, sounds, and early reading skills at home. I walk you through specific phonics ...