California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use ...

As part of a wide-sweeping district restructuring, phonics lessons will be strengthened ... sounds and how to break down words while reading and put them together when writing.

For years, arguments over phonics have stalled ... alongside lessons in vocabulary and comprehension. The other primary approach emphasizes sight reading, in which students memorize whole words ...

Another is teachers’ fear that drilling kids in phonics will kill their love of reading. But if teachers incorporate games, songs, and physical activities, phonics can be fun. And if kids don ...

New Jersey’s youngest students should expect new tools in their classrooms this fall, as schools implement new laws to reboot ...

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

But I realized that his real reading proficiency would likely not have been detected if the school had taught almost exclusively phonics-based reading lessons. Another weakness of phonics, in my ...

One Whatcom County elementary school is seeing growth in students’ reading skills after making some significant changes to ...

These phonics-based lessons are on the fast track to become law in California under a sweeping bill moving through the Legislature that will mandate how schools teach reading, a rare action in a ...