These strategies help connect movements to phonics instruction, giving kids another way to absorb the crucial information.

Balanced Literacy downplays structured phonics, where kids learn by memorizing letters' sounds. Is that why some are ...

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?

An influential researcher in the science of reading movement is warns schools may be "overteaching" the skill.

But I think it's also because reading instruction became lazy and political. "Progressives" at teachers' colleges pushed a ...