His LeapPad tablets, which helped children read, found their way into tens of millions of homes beginning in 1999.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas pulled a bill on early literacy instruction and asked proponents and adversaries to reach a ...

Lawmakers in some states are trying to ban the "cueing" approach, which asks students to rely on pictures or context clues to ...

The once-abandoned instructional approach is back in place in South Dakota in hopes of improving students’ reading comprehension.

South Dakota officially took a step in a better direction Monday when the state’s Board of Education Standards approved revisions to English Language standards that’ll embrace the use of phonics ...

Ever heard of a digraph? It's "two letters that come together to make one sound," Troup kindergartener Jose told his ...

Republican U.S. Rep. Juan Ciscomani held a one-hour telephonic town hall Wednesday evening. Below are some of the topics and ...

As the Feb. 24 article states, Louisiana is using the "science of reading" emphasizing phonics and teaching students to "decipher words letter by letter and sound by sound." The results ...

Student scores have plunged to historic lows, but some states are turning back to the practice of teaching letter sounds—if teacher unions do not spoil the efforts first. Phonics instructs ...