Everyone teaches handwriting, but like with other aspects of literacy, there is enormous variability in how educators go about it and how...

Every teacher teaches spelling, but like with word-level reading instruction, what is taught and how it is taught are highly variable...

When considering writing instruction, William Van Cleave says we should always ask, “Does this make them a better writer, or reader of...

Two significant papers were published in the last fortnight. They were: Buckingham, J. (2020). Systematic phonics instruction belongs in...

What are The Reading Wars? A quick Google will tell you that most major newspapers have written about The Reading Wars here in Australia...