As California launches a new literacy campaign, some advocates worry that for English learners, a focus on sounding out words will come at the expense of learning the meaning of words. State ...

Research in neuroscience confirms what parents and teachers should do to help children crack the reading code. Find out what showing kids how to sound out words does for their brain. Steve Peha and I ...

A groundbreaking new study has identified how different brain regions are responsible for visualizing and sounding out words when you’re reading. People who read words using the visual brain region ...

In school, many kindergarten and first-grade students are asked to memorize lists of common words, which are sometimes called “sight words.” This practice skips important steps. The idea that children ...

As detailed in this paper last Sunday (“Virginia Opens a New Chapter on Literacy”), a new law in the Commonwealth will require schools to provide “reading intervention services” to kids who are slow ...