Rosa Higgs, a teacher from Berkeley, California, has proven why phonics instruction matters. Her phonics workbook series, Read in 40 Hours or Less, is designed to help Black students learn to read ...

A Black educator is making learning to read as easy as counting to three for Black students in America. Rosa Higgs, a Black educator with more than 50 years of experience, created the Phonics workbook ...

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...

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Misty Adoniou works for the University of Canberra. She has received funding from state and federal funding bodies for projects investigating curriculum, teacher standards and the teaching of English ...