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 ...

New York students must learn phonics, Regents decide Beginning this fall, schools must teach children to sound out words instead of memorizing word lists as they learn to read By Kathleen Moore ...

About 40 percent of students will learn to read no matter what. They’ll manage to sound words out without systematic phonics instruction, or without any phonics instruction at all. That’s part ...

This post — written by David Reinking, Peter Smagorinsky, and David B. Yaden — looks at the debate on phonics in a different way than is most often voiced these days. It notes, among other ...

When Hooked on Phonics launched its Android app in 2013, the brand found itself in unfamiliar terrain: app stores instead of ...

Phonics has been pushed aside for too long. ... was too difficult to learn (“Phonics Finally Gets Its Due in New York” by Eva Moskowitz, Cross Country, June 24). ...

In the whole-language approach, it’s the story’s meaning that matters more than the discrete words. APM Report’s Emily Hanford describes a typical process: When a child learning to read ...

1. Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though).