Hi. I'm Tim and this is my Pronunciation Workshop. Here, I'm going to show you how English is really spoken. Come on, let's go inside. Today, I'm going to tell you about perhaps the most common ...

The “science of reading” movement has ended, at least for now, one great literacy debate: Policymakers, education leaders, and experts almost universally agree that explicit, systematic phonics is an ...

When it comes to spelling, certain words trip Americans up more than others. That’s according to Unscramblerer.com, which recently completed an analysis of Google search data to reveal the most ...

The tide has turned on reading instruction. Nearly all states have passed “science of reading” laws, and most researchers and educators now agree students need to learn letters and sounds explicitly ...

An elementary student’s first foray into anatomy is often a catchy tune composed mainly of four words: “heads, shoulders, knees, and toes.” As they progress through the shortlist, children put their ...

A student must be able to decode before they can truly build reading fluency or comprehension. That’s not a preference. It’s how reading works. Yet in IEP meetings, I often see teams rush toward ...

At Gilles-Sweet Elementary in Fairview Park, Ohio, kindergarten teacher Keri Laughlin combines movement and phonics to help her students build the foundational literacy skills they’ll need as readers.

First-grader Mary Greer shows her work during a phonics-based reading lesson at Hunt Valley Elementary School in Springfield, Virginia. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) The “reading wars” that ...

An instructional assistant works with students in a literacy class in Oakland on March 7, 2025. Photo by Florence Middleton for CalMatters Welcome to CalMatters, the only nonprofit newsroom devoted ...

Get your spell check ready. With the National Spelling Bee right around the corner, the folks at WordUnscrambler.pro combed through Google data to find 2025’s most misspelled words in the US and for ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...