Literacy educators support a “balanced approach” to teaching early literacy, and are divided when it comes to the importance of foundational skills like phonics instruction, according to a new survey ...

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Victoria has just announced all government schools will be required to use phonics to teach reading from next year. This brings it in line with approaches in New South Wales, Queensland and South ...

To the editor: Your editorial on reforming reading instruction highlighted what a disaster “whole language” has been for literacy in our public schools. This movement decades ago to step away from ...

EdReports, the nonprofit curriculum reviewer, is shining a spotlight on early reading—the group announced on Wednesday that it will start releasing evaluations of foundational phonics skills programs.

In a shift away from whole language-based approaches favoured across the sector, Canberra Goulburn Catholic Education has introduced a new policy on reading instruction, which will require all primary ...

How best to teach kids to read is a worldwide conversation – underscored recently in Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong, by award-winning American Public Media investigative ...