Pay attention to the shapes your mouths make as you pronounce the word, instructs Robin Fuxa, their education professor at Oklahoma State University. She asks her students if they can feel the way the ...

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Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

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She asks her students if they can feel the way the words sound as they speak. "Say it again and see if you feel it in your vocal cords," Fuxa prompts her reading instruction class, held last October.

Research shows there are science-backed ways to help students learn to read, but not all teachers are trained in the best way to do so. In... Teacher training programs don't always use research-backed ...