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, ...
Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman said she instructs students on atoms, matter and how they “influence the world around us.” But Hackman also has another responsibility: ...
As more states and districts are embracing the “science of reading,” some educators and advocates have raised the question: Will these methods work for English-language learners? The “science of ...
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Fed up parents, civil rights activists, newly awakened educators and lawmakers are crusading for “the science of reading.” Can they get results? Most children need systematic, sound-it-out instruction ...
Educators at Marian University in Indianapolis saw the need for a new way to teach reading long before the Indiana legislature made it a requirement for schools. The state’s IREAD-3 results showed ...
Hannah Hughes is playing a game with a group of second graders at Johnson Elementary School in Kingsport, Tennessee, who are still working on their reading skills. Hughes shows the group the word ...
A kindergarten student raises her hand during a reading lesson in Jennifer Lee’s class at Southwest Primary School in Hickory, N.C. Credit: Ariel Gilreath for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report ...
Mark Seidenberg is not the first researcher to reach the stunning conclusion that only a third of the nation's schoolchildren read at grade level. The reasons are numerous, but one that Seidenberg ...
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