Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.

“A Seven Year Study of the Effects of Synthetic Phonics Teaching on Reading and Spelling Attainment” is available online from the Scottish Executive. () The study followed 300 students over seven ...

The target for the proportion of children passing the phonics screening check – a test of how well children aged five and six in England can “decode” words – has been raised to 90%. This increase, ...

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...