Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read independently ...

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 ...

And there are so many different ways of bringing it in to match the skill level of the students, and to enhance where they’re going from. In terms of where you would put phonics, in terms of priority ...

Teachers are being instructed to dedicate just 10 minutes to teaching their students phonics at a northern suburbs school, despite the government’s 25 minute recommendation. From this year, students ...

Here comes the bride, all dressed in Q. The groom was dressed in U. At least that’s how the wedding of the Qs and the Us was performed Friday morning at Trice Elementary School. There was no quibbling ...