California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

California’s dismal reading scores point to the need to bolster early literacy, but here's why experts say it may be possible ...

Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a wide-sweeping district restructuring, phonics lessons will be ...

Nearly 40 states have required phonics-based reading instruction in recent years. Some school districts in California, including Los Angeles Unified, the largest district in the state, already use ...

Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade.

Few decisions a society makes are as consequential as how it teaches children to read. Children who can’t read proficiently ...

Teacher Hannah Kenney leads a reading lesson for her first grade class at Logan Elementary School in Columbia on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025. Perry McLeod/Special to The Post and Courier Facebook ...

More literacy screeners, less three-cueing . Changing how reading is taught also means “eliminating” lessons that use a “three-cueing approach,” in which kids are asked to guess a word ...

California's reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state's literacy crisis.

Watered-down bill makes phonics-based reading instruction optional in California by Carolyn Jones • CalMatters May 4, 2025, 8:15 a.m. May 3, 2025, 8:51 a.m. Share this: ...