This story was originally published . Sign up for their newsletters. At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them.

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use ...

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The author's search for interventions for children who had not responded to phonics led to the role of prosody, the melody of language, and its importance to phonics and reading. The author found ...

Phonics strategies begin by teaching children to recognize letters and make their corresponding sounds. Then they advance to manipulating and blending first-letter sounds to read and write simple ...

It is the same for reading. Yes, effective instruction in phonics and other essential reading skills does help a child learn to read by age 8 or 9. The “science of reading” refers to beginning ...

I spent much of the 1980s and 1990s as a New York Times correspondent in East Asia, and children there (including mine) learned to read through phonics and phonetic alphabets: hiragana in Japan ...

Noah Webster, the textbook pioneer whose “blue-back speller” taught children how to spell and read for generations, supported phonics. So it started. In the last century and now again ...

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.