Peek inside a kindergarten, first-grade, or second-grade classroom at Midland Public Schools any day of the week, and you’re guaranteed to see adorable kiddos and a flurry of activity. What you’re ...

Why phonics matters: Phonics connects letters to sounds, helping kids decode words and read independently. It’s a proven foundation for literacy success. Best teaching methods: Systematic, explicit ...

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 ...

From the first coos and giggles to decoding words in kindergarten, early literacy grows through intentional, loving interaction. Research shows that reading success is built on phonics, phonological ...

One woman is on a mission to make reading fun and exciting for kids. She writes engaging stories to make phonics fun!

Phonics is a cornerstone skill, both in the context of the Science of Reading as well as across curricula. If students do not have the basic ability to read words on a page, any other instruction a ...

I am writing in regard to Katie Guyer’s article, “UFLI foundations program makes phonics fun” in the Feb. 10 edition of the Midland Daily News. In the article, she states, “Let’s be clear: MPS does ...