HARRISON, NY — This fall, Manhattanville College will become the only undergraduate and graduate school of education in the New York Metropolitan area to include a one-credit phonics lab in its curriculum.
Many teacher education programs in the nation do not require a phonics course, which enables teachers to teach beginning readers in kindergarten through grade 2 how letters and syllables correspond to sounds.
“Teachers in America read about using phonics as a teaching method, but they are not taught HOW to use phonics in the classroom to improve reading, writing, spelling and comprehension,” said Sandra Priest Rose, founder of Manhattanville College’s Rose Institute for Learning and Literacy.
