Edutopia

A Process for Successful Learning Labs

By designing peer observations thoughtfully, teaching teams can learn from one another and build their collective efficacy.
Edutopia

Adding Movement to Phonics Instruction

By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways ...
The Conversation

Isolated phonics lessons aren’t working: here’s a better way to teach young children to read and write

Dominic Wyse receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust for his centre The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy, he also receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. In recent years he has received ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
Fox News

More US schools embrace phonics lessons over traditional ‘whole language’ teaching

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Phonics gets kids over an early reading hump. What happens after that?

To the editor: English is a phonetic language, so as soon as children learn letters and sounds, they can start to write simple messages. Most people go on to write well enough for practical purposes, ...