The two elementary school teachers started a series of comic books “Hooked on Comics,” which they’re now selling to educators ...

In effort to prevent her students from falling behind during the summer months, Tisue recently launched a summer reading ...

Last year OverDrive introduced simultaneous access to children’s eBooks focused on early literacy through its All Access Supersonic Phonics ... to promote book sales for print, digital and ...

Cricket magazine Supported by By Sadie Stein Sadie Stein is an editor at the Book Review ... s founding was underpinned by a robust phonics-based philosophy of reading.) The opening party ...

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Nor did it help that, just as printed books were finally helping to settle conventions more ... An alphabet from a 9th-century Anglo-Saxon manuscript Credit: Print Collector/Getty Images The ESS ...

Brittany McGuire got the idea from her 8-year-old son. He struggled to read and sometimes refused to do his reading homework. But he loved comic books.

There is also embedded phonics, where students start with books and are taught phonics skills as they are required. These approaches may not involve explicit teaching about letters and their sounds.

The learn-to-read books are also helpful for adults, she said. The books, called decodables, are for working on phonics and sounding out words. But bedtime reading should be filled with engaging ...

Tom Pearce is a doctoral student in the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work. His research looks at ...