People with more knowledge tend to be better readers. That’s not proof that increasing knowledge improves reading. It could be that higher achieving kids like learning about the world and enjoy ...

Staff Writer As Susie Mahowald stands in front of her first-grade class at St. John the Baptist Catholic School, she teaches them to spell and read without opening her mouth, ...

and then they read individual words and passages that use those letter-sound correspondences. Phonics patterns are introduced in a systematic sequence, and students get opportunities to practice ...

If a Wordle user guesses a letter that's in the right place, that tile will then turn green. If the letter does appear at some point in the word, but not in the place the user has guessed, it will ...

ATLANTA (InvestigateTV) - As a former schoolteacher, Missy Purcell was puzzled as she watched her first grader trying to read at home. Rather than sounding the words out, she said she saw her son ...

The Nation’s Report Card is sparking calls to action as dismal scores on reading and math show students across the country have failed to academically recover from the pandemic. Data released ...

Following its public debut, Wordle exploded from 90 users on November 1, 2021, to 300,000 on January 2, 2022. The New York Times purchased it for an undisclosed seven-figure sum, and soon after, it ...

She drew attention to the state’s focus on the science of reading — a research-backed approach that focuses on teaching phonics, or the building blocks of words, as children build toward literacy.