Reading aloud to students to evoke a love of reading was one of the hallmarks of the balanced literacy approach, which is now ...

There are many theories about the best way to teach reading: science of reading, whole language, balanced literacy. So what works best?

Instead, there emerged an approach called “balanced literacy,” which continued many of the techniques of whole language but brought in more phonics. It was intended to be sort of a compromise ...

In fact, some of the most common English words are nonphonetic. For example, the words to and do do not rhyme with so or go. One and gone don’t rhyme either. And why are to, too, and two all ...

The task force hasn’t met for seven months. “Stay tuned,” he said during a news conference Wednesday. “We are literally trying to build together a comprehensive approach for addressing literacy in the ...