Teacher training programs don't always use research-backed reading methods
Research shows there are science-backed ways to help students learn to read, but not all teachers are trained in the best way to do so. In response, colleges are reimagining their curriculums.
A dozen college students are saying the word "pat" and jotting down notes about the sounds being made.
"Puh - AH - tt"
Pay attention to the shapes your mouths make as you pronounce the word, instructs Robin Fuxa, their education professor at Oklahoma State University.
She asks her students if they can feel the way the words sound as they speak.
"Say it again and see if you feel it in your vocal cords," Fuxa prompts her reading instruction class, held last October.
Fuxa is trying to get her students to pay attention to phonics, the reading method that links a sound to a letter. Extensive research has shown phonics is an effective
