As the "science of reading" movement has spread, predictable texts for beginning readers have come under fire.

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...

Superintendent Marie Feagins is embracing a “back to basics” approach to reading instruction as Memphis-Shelby County Schools ...

It provides guidance to teachers and textbook publishers on how to incorporate the Common Core standards in the classroom. Its K-2 chapters include sections on teaching basic reading skills including ...

Its standards-aligned resources have assessments embedded ... Aligned with Common Core State Math Standards, the site targets ...

Here’s what you need to know: The phonics screening check is a statutory assessment in all of England’s state-funded primary schools - meaning children have to do it. Pupils sit the test at ...

Notable courses in the curriculum include foundations of literacy, art methods and phonics ... s 120-credit curriculum includes core courses in areas like assessment for learning and foundations ...

Also, the schools were required to submit a 20-page application with detailed assessment information ... They recently adopted the 95 Core Phonics program, a Science of Reading that develops ...

It provides students of all abilities — from at-risk to on-level and advanced — a systematic and structured approach to phonological awareness, oral language, phonics, vocabulary, fluency ...

"We are engaging in this very important process of assessment ... With (the core knowledge system) we (are) making sure the kids are all reaching their phonics skill goals by the end of the ...