Elementary schools turn to science of reading to combat literacy crisis

Schools are using the science of reading to help improve declining literacy rates. It includes five components: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.
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Reading Skills Are in Sharp Decline. Rescuing Them Won't be Easy.

BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It’s nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. She’s also one of the people having the most fun. Parsing education data ...