Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is part of the By the Book ...

My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...

Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...

Inspired by a “student-centred” approach to learning — in line with the “constructivism” philosophy of education woven through her university course — she set about creating an aesthetically pleasing ...

Like lots of parents in West Linn, Maggie Traverso moved to this affluent city south of Portland for the quality of the schools. And until recently, she was satisfied. Her daughter was doing well in ...

Ask an early-elementary teacher what the recently popularized term “science-based reading instruction” means, and the response is likely to include something about decoding—the process of translating ...

Decoding means to break down new words into sounds that are easier to recognise. The s, a, t, p sounds Help the wizards to make words and captions with s, a, t and p in this fun Stage 1 Phonics guide ...

Schools across the country have been shifting their reading strategies to incorporate knowledge and best practices they have learned from the science of reading. More than 30 states have written ...

Senior Research Fellow, The Centre for Independent Studies; Associate Investigator, ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University Jennifer Buckingham and Kevin Wheldall ...

Pamela Snow receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Anne Castles receives funding from the ARC and the NHMRC. Kevin Wheldall has previously received research funding from various ...