What it is: Phonemic awareness is the ability to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds in spoken words, a key foundation before learning letter-sound relationships. Why it matters: Strong ...

As Brighton Central School District and BOCES staff prepare for the end of the 2025-2026 academic year, a focused effort on early literacy is reaching a pivotal moment. Recent Heggerty Phonemic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clarification: A previous version of this story had a different image. It has been updated for clarity. Walk into any kindergarten classroom this fall, and there’s a good chance students will be ...