Elizabeth Nonweiler has written to Education Minister Lynne Neagle saying Wales' literacy panel has achieved next to nothing ...

The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing ...

The law provides training for school principals and reading specialists in the “science of reading," a method focused on ...

Supporters of the bill hope it will improve literacy instruction and outcomes while opponents worry that it is overly prescriptive and will limit the methods teachers have available to teach students.

While not mandatory, the law provides support for phonics — focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out — to ...

Data from a ‘phonics check’ of new entrants is too incomplete to draw firm conclusions from, and word recognition is not the ...

Borrowed into English in the 1600s, a cacafuego or cacafugo is a blustering, swaggering boaster. It literally means “fire-pooper” in Spanish. Someone who thinks that they’re more beautiful than they ...

Anyone who has ever studied a foreign language knows that translator apps, while helpful, aren’t always reliable. It’s easy to tell when text has been fed through an online translator because certain ...

Basal-type programs, which structure their main reading comprehension lessons around a core anthology of short full-length ...