COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two Cuyahoga County schools — Euclid City Schools and Orchard Park Academy — are among 33 across Ohio ...

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 phonics. Knowledge is where some of those religious elements are,” said Mohammed ...

Key points: Evidence-based reading research demonstrates the need for explicit phonics instruction versus implicit instruction Teaching explicitly and systematically means just that–teachers expressly ...

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Reading by 9’s back-to-school guide. Find expert tips, book recommendations and resources for parents of kids just starting transitional kindergarten.

What should we be doing? Reading research has demonstrated — for several decades — that early reading instruction needs to include systematic phonics.

Literacy experts explained 'the science of reading' isn't just one program or curriculum, but an entire body of research on how to teach reading.

This time, though, the manufactured outrage over an imagined lack of phonics is masking the real attack on reading: the huge uptick in book bans across the nation.

Their proposal would triple the number of annual reading screenings for students in kindergarten through third grade, something they say will identify struggling students early and create ...