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.

As the results of the Year One Phonics Check are made available, this is how you can help your child if they score below the ...

Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be officially retired ...

“We are now adopting the Bluebonnet phonics component. So the reading is split into skills and knowledge. Skills is the ...

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

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

As Fort Worth Independent School District officials reviewed their official spring 2025 state test scores on Tuesday with an ...

Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though). 2.

English learners, she said, need schools to teach phonics hand-in-hand with oral language development and reading comprehension in a way that’s specifically suited to second-language acquisition.

Low reading scores in recent years led to a push to reconsider the merits of the phonics-based “science of reading” methodology. Just under 50% of South Dakota students didn’t meet English ...