AOL

How Waterford trained all its K-5 teachers in science of reading

Waterford ― With her teacher holding the microphone, kindergartener Gloria DesJardin gently corrected her pupil: the superintendent of the Waterford School District. The sound the letters "ck" make, ...
Oregonian

Oregon teachers want to learn the right way to teach reading. They need funding to do it.

After 13 years of teaching, Hillsboro kindergarten teacher Kandi Hess did not know the rule that determines when the letter g makes the hard “guh” sound versus the soft “juh,” until she started a year ...
WRAL

'I didn't know how to spell': NC teachers take on renewed way to teach reading

At Lacy Elementary School, kindergarten teacher Michelle Pritchard points her students toward a drawing of a rodent with the letters “a” and “t” above it. The first letter is missing. She asks them ...
Post and Courier

SC is all in on the 'science of reading.' Some schools say its phonics approach makes a difference.

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...
Rocky Mount Telegram

Educators say LETRS spells change for the way reading is taught

More than two years since North Carolina lawmakers enacted reforms to reading instruction, there are signs that students in early grades may have turned the page in their literacy skills. The National ...