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The Child Who Arrives at Class I Without Words: Oral Language Development and Its Underappreciated Role

Children arrive at Class I with enormous differences in oral language development — and these differences predict reading and academic outcomes more powerfully than most teachers realise. A contributing voice from educational research  |  Specialist in child development, wellbeing, and community engagement This essay addresses one of the most important but under-discussed challenges in Indian […]

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Teaching Reading, Not Teaching About Reading: Explicit Phonics and the Foundational Literacy Crisis

Millions of Indian children complete primary school without learning to read fluently. This is not because they lack intelligence. It is because the teaching of reading has been treated as something that happens naturally rather than something that must be explicitly taught. A contributing voice from policy analysis  |  Specialist in education equity, school improvement, […]

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