Open new doors for adults learning to read. Nearly one in six adults struggle with basic literacy skills, impacting their ...

“The intrinsic desire to read is there in everyone,” says LaTonya Harris, a Coppin State College senior teaching in the ... t use first-grade books and phonics drills with 15-year-olds.

VITA (Volunteer Instructors Teaching Adults, Inc.) is a nonprofit ... In addition to tutoring throughout the community, VITA staff members teach classes in phonics, grammar, reading comprehension, ...

Teaching phonics – helping children learn to read by sounding out the letters of words – was only the baseline. “The evidence is so overwhelming that phonics in the teaching of reading is ...