Category: phonics

For academic success, a student must have great reading skills. Therefore, our education system cannot achieve its goals without great reading skills. As a society, we’ve known this for many years. Decades of national testing have continually demonstrated that approximately two-thirds of our fourth graders are not proficient readers. What’s worse is that our governmental, educational, and social institutions either don’t care or can’t figure it out. We Need Great Reading Instruction First, there is an undeniable link between the sounds and symbols of English. To read, students must translate the symbols into sound. To write (and spell) students must translate […]