From the beginning of the 2025 school year, all schools will be required to use structured literacy—also known as "phonics" or the "science of reading"—to teach children how to read. But the very ...

Join leading experts and educators for a dynamic discussion on how to make Structured Literacy a reality in every classroom—and what can be done differently this time to ensure lasting success.

When districts adopt evidence-based practices like Structured Literacy, it’s often with a surge of excitement and momentum. Yet the real challenge lies not in the initial adoption, but in sustaining ...

Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words. "What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about ...

The New Mexico Public Education Department named Bell Elementary School as a Structured Literacy Model School, ranked alongside seven other schools in the state. The PED recently sent out a press ...

In the fight to improve reading proficiency in New Mexico schools, the state Public Education Department is making incremental changes. Earlier this year, the department named eight schools ...

The NAEP results in late 2022 revealed that reading scores fell for both fourth and eighth grade readers as a result of the pandemic. Only 33 percent of fourth graders are reading proficiently, which ...

Hilary A Smith is co-convenor of the Languages Alliance Aotearoa NZ and president of Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a past president of the Teachers to Speakers of Other Languages ...