As schools around the nation scramble to respond to the alarm bells set off by falling scores on “the nation’s report card,” we—two university professors who teach reading courses and who are former ...

What sound does k make? Can you say the 'k' sound like in kick and kit? What sound does l and ll make? Do you know what sound 'l' and 'll' make in a word?

Educational publishers have welcomed the UK government’s announcement that it will not develop a full programme arounds its Letters and Sounds handbook, which comes after lobbying from the sector.

Like other veteran elementary school teachers in Baltimore, Ellen Mass-Soltz was skeptical — perhaps even a bit cynical — about the new phonics-based reading textbooks bought last summer for every ...

Banging away on one of her favorite toys, 3-1/2-year-old Katelyn Smith shut out the usual sounds of her living room in Herndon, Va., her baby brother crying and her mother fussing over him. The little ...