“We are now adopting the Bluebonnet phonics component. So the reading is split into skills and knowledge. Skills is the ...

The games include Zingo, The Fidget Game, Phonics Board Game and more. The Lake Branch is hosting “Read Write Play” at 3 p.m. every Monday until July 15.

Changes to the reading curriculum are headed to schools in New York State, as the Board of Regents has decided phonics, the approach to learning to read by spelling things out, should be taught in ...

Wordle, the viral online guess-the-word game, has become a social media phenomenon and a source of fierce competition among its devotees. But in some classrooms, it’s also a teaching tool.

Board chairwoman Diane Porter said phonics and its precursor skill, phonemic awareness, are important for early grades, but that children also must be able to understand what they're reading.

1. Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though).

Members of the Editorial Board: Deputy Opinion Editors Mary Duenwald and Stephen Stromberg, as well as writers Robert Gebelhoff, James Hohmann, Megan McArdle, Eduardo Porter and Keith B. Richburg ...

It’s a marriage that city school officials hope will combine the best of textbook families. Interim schools chief Robert E. Schiller and his staff recommended last week that $3.8 million in n… ...

State Board of Regents Chancellor Lester W. Young Jr., center, and the rest of the board voted Monday that every school district must revert to teaching phonics in grades pre-K through third ...

Low reading scores in recent years led to a push to reconsider the merits of the phonics-based “science of reading” methodology. Just under 50% of South Dakota students didn’t meet English ...