Lucy Calkins was an education superstar. Now she’s cast as the reason a generation of students struggles to read. Can she ...

The book contains 10 colourfully illustrated chapters with subtitles such as: 3 Ways to Encourage Kids to Read, Phonics: an Effective Approach to Teaching Reading, Steps to Teaching Kids to Read ...

Last year, under the direction of co-founder and CEO Pamela Good, Beyond Basics began taking the program to other parts of ...

which are phonemic awareness and phonics programs that provide a foundation for children to become great readers early on.

"Over 90 percent of children will learn to read using phonics. If we use the whole word approach like we've been doing for many years it's about 60 percent of kids will learn to read," she said. The ...

The kids might want to play on a tablet or screen, but reading is still good for the kids. And good news, libraries are still free! 91% of kids ages 5-12 are happier if they are avid readers according ...

Re “Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces $200 tax-free rebate cheques” (Oct. 30 ... Re “Student teachers only answered 60% of phonics questions correctly, survey says” (Oct. 28): A ...

Lingokids' internal research shows that: 90% of children who have completed a lesson show skill improvement when comparing their initial and final assessments. Active and continued engagement with ...

Drinks said the district no longer allows the instructional method known as “three-cueing,” which de-emphasizes phonics and teaches kids to use contextual cues in order to read. “You have ...

They start requiring kids to read increasingly ... they can’t read well if they can’t decode the words on the page. Ensuring that children learn these phonics skills in early elementary ...

Remember the Book It! program that kept many of us interested in reading through our formative years? It is still alive and well — turning 40 this year, as a matter of fact, and has spun off into ...

Download free CBeebies games and story apps for kids and find out how they can help ... From maths and numbers with the Numberblocks to learning phonics with the Alphablocks.