BRANDON, Fla. — This week’s A+ Teacher spent her summer making a difference at Kingswood Elementary School. Jaymie Martinez loves using phonics to help her students learn. She taught first graders ...

By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways that work best for them.

Until the mid-twentieth century, American schools taught youngsters to read using phonics, which formalizes the process by breaking down words into letters and their sounds. By learning general rules ...

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Square Panda, creator of an award-winning multisensory edtech literacy platform aimed at kids in pre-kindergarten to grade 3, announced today that its Square Panda ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

We’re exploring the declining skills and flagging enthusiasm for reading among American youth. One key cause can be traced back to how kids are taught to read in the earliest grades. Classic reading ...