An influential researcher in the science of reading movement is warns schools may be "overteaching" the skill.
Since the school district implemented a new phonics program in Bradley Elementary School, 80% of the kids are now reading ...
The UFLI reading curriculum is already used in McLean County school districts, including District 87 and Heyworth.
A new curriculum teaches young children how to break down words by their sounds and then put them back together.
When COVID-19 wrought havoc on society in early 2020, today's youngest schoolchildren were infants or yet to be born. Now in ...
The science of reading is having a moment. Pundits are trumpeting the Southern Surge and celebrating academic outcomes in (gasp!) Mississippi and Louisiana. Outlets like the New York Times and ...
Idaho Hill Elementary is seeing early gains in student reading skills thanks to a Rotary-funded purchase of UFLI intervention materials.
The data suggest the slump in academic performance is not rooted only in instructional disruption, but that broader societal shifts might be at play.
Take, for example, the rule of doubling the letters f, l, s, and z when they come after a short vowel in a one-syllable word, such as “stuff”—this is essentially a spelling rule and nothing more. Most ...
Schools and literacy groups in Central Georgia are encouraging reading engagement as experts stress the importance of proficiency by third grade.