Teach phonics skills at home to support your child as they learn to read. Here’s how you can help your child sound out and blend new words as they start school.

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.

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

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

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest ...

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

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

Schools try new approach to teach students to read 04:00. Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of ...

Since last fall, Brittany McGuire and Jackie Benson have written 35 books that teach phonics through comics. “We have a similar work style and work ethic,” McGuire said.

That’s why it’s promising Michigan passed legislation last year to require a “science of reading” approach — a phonics-based reading curriculum — in kindergarten through 3rd grade. Gov.