The extent of the illiteracy epidemic in Michigan and elsewhere demands more than simply switching curriculum materials in ...

Teachers unions oppose the reintroduction of phonics in reading education, despite evidence of its effectiveness compared to ...

If students don’t learn how to read in school, not much else that happens there is going to matter. This might be a harsh way ...

But as they began to do research on literacy ... that the most effective way to teach literacy is through phonics, which ...

Children should first learn ... "We were neutral on phonics. Then the whole-language movement hijacked what we were doing." Before Honig noticed what was going on, California made a strong ...

Don’t worry if you do this - it’s easy to change the ... Before this stage though, children have been learning phonics skills since they were born; differentiating between sounds such as ...

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds ... it’s also a good idea to learn the letter names, which you can do with an alphabet song (and the ABC episode ...

There are many theories about the best way to teach reading: science of reading, whole language, balanced literacy. So what ...

Only 4 in 10 third-graders in California read at their grade level—and that drops to 3 in 10 for low-income Latino students.

The strategies align with decades of research that shows that in addition to broadening their vocabulary, "children need to understand phonics, or the relationship between letters and the sounds ...

The funding was approved in 2023 to support the "science of reading" approach, which emphasizes phonics, and address concerns ...