Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...

And there are so many different ways of bringing it in to match the skill level of the students, and to enhance where they’re going from. In terms of where you would put phonics, in terms of priority ...

Arguments about the best way to teach children to read can be intense – they’ve even been described as “the reading wars”. In England, as in many other countries, much of the debate has been over the ...