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Milwaukee First Grade Teacher Goes Above & Beyond For Phonics Lessons

Kelly meets Milwaukee first grade teacher Jake who is engaging his students by turning reading and writing into catchy interactive songs. Jake dials-in and shares how adding songs and chats makes ...
The New York Times

The Debate Over the Best Way to Teach Reading

Readers discuss an article about a trend back to emphasizing phonics. To the Editor: Re “She Helped Transform Reading Lessons. Now She’s Backtracking” (front page, May 22): As an educator for 30-plus ...
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 ...
The Atlantic

How One Woman Became the Scapegoat for America’s Reading Crisis

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

'Phonics' being introduced to Victorian education curriculum, despite pushback from teachers union

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher unfamiliar ...