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.

The Department for Education has now released the results of the 2023/24 school year phonics screening check, a test children usually take in their very first year of school. It helps determine ...

Amos: Too many California kids can’t read. Will phonics help? Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade ...

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.

A once-empty balcony at Harbertonford Primary is now a vibrant play world for Reception kids — all thanks to a small grant, ...

There are alternatives to England’s focus on synthetic phonics, which teaches children to decode words by learning the relationship between letters and sounds.

Children aged 6 are tested in phonics and the results are entered into the national pupil database, with those data used to hold the schools and teachers to account.

Letters 2 Literacy, a nonprofit that tutors students in literacy and phonics, was born after seeing students in her classroom struggle.