The phases provide milestones to guide instruction from preschool to grade two reading proficiency.

As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not ...

South Carolina schools are going all in on the "science of reading," an approach to teaching reading that's largely focused ...

Corey O’Connor is claiming credit for Pittsburgh’s paid sick leave policy in TV ads and mailers in his campaign against Mayor Ed Gainey. But the truth is, he almost killed it. I know this ...

Reservoir Primary School’s Prep teachers use Phonics Plus to introduce different letter/sound relationships to their class. Quotes attributable to Deputy Premier and Minister for Education Ben Carroll ...

Recently, Cook County’s new state’s attorney, Eileen O’Neill Burke, issued a policy instructing assistant state’s attorneys to object anytime a judge orders an individual to be released on ...

Assembly Bill 1121 by Assembly member Blanca Rubio, D-West Covina, which would require public schools to use phonics-based reading curriculum rather than a whole-language system. The former helps ...

Phonics instructs children to identify letters ... with a word beneath it (such as a picture of a dog with the letters “d-o-g” beneath). Students are supposed to connect the visual with ...

The systematic synthetic phonics method will enable students to learn the sounds that correlate with letters of the English alphabet, with the government directive stating schools must dedicate a ...

I read your columnist Sarah O’Connor’s article “Are we becoming ... Instead of using tried and true phonics-based curricula, schools opted to teach children to use cues like context or ...