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.

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

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 ...

Unfortunately, your recent commentary concerning the education debate over reading techniques (“Reading wars,” Perspective, March 2) does a great disservice to parents by obfuscating th… ...

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

Phonics: Reading instruction that teaches students the sounds letters make and how those sounds combine in predictable patterns to form words. For example, ...

The phonics-heavy Orton-Gillingham approach, long favored by dyslexia advocates and aggressively marketed to concerned parents, does not meet the U.S. Department of Education’s standards for ...

Phonics The knowledge that letters represent phonemes and that these sounds can combine to form words. Fluency The ability to read easily, accurately, quickly and with expression and understanding.

How phonics is making a comeback as millions of kids struggle to read "I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. By Arthur Jones II, Tal Axelrod, and Jay O'Brien.

With a phonics-based curriculum, we can teach children to read, and ensure we don’t leave a generation behind. FILE — In this March 24, 2021 file photo, ...