Lincolnshire, IL– 95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for proven literacy solutions, unveiled 95 Phonemic Awareness Suite™, a comprehensive program for developing awareness of speech sounds for ...

Phonemic awareness—being able to recognize and manipulate the sounds in English—is a critical early literacy skill. But you don’t need fancy, pricey commercial materials to help kids master it, says ...

I'm thrilled to share my favorite free resource for phonological and phonemic awareness, perfect for pre-K through first grade teachers and parents. These ready-to-use weekly activities support early ...

Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. In fact, controversies are emerging about an ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

A reading block in an elementary school classroom can feel like a carefully choreographed 120-minute dance. Time is a finite resource, and it often falls to teachers to make decisions about how much ...

The frequency of occurrence of words and sounds has a pervasive influence on typically developing children’s language acquisition. For instance, highly frequent words appear earliest in a child’s ...