Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...

The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters make in simple words. This is what the science of reading looks like as Hoard ...

Confronted with the literacy dilemma raised by Rudolph Flesch’s best-seller “Why Johnny Can’t Read” (1955), most people outside of education knew the answer intuitively while many in education chafed ...

Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...