The program combines weekly literacy coaching, tech and data reports to increase literacy rates among children.

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

The school board approved Amira, which listens to students read aloud as part of the state's new literacy framework requiring ...

The nearly $1M phonics plan will expand K-3 reading instruction while avoiding Bluebonnet’s debated Bible story lessons ...

Roughly 70% of elementary school students in Berlin aren’t reading at their grade level. Some teachers are saying that’s ...

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.

4:16 p.m. June 2, 2025: An earlier version of this report incorrectly said teaching phonics was new to Long Beach Unified. Some phonics has been taught in the district for years, but a new focus ...

As Reading Scores Fall, States Turn to Phonics — but Not Without a Fight A bipartisan wave of state-level changes to the ‘science of reading’ is gaining momentum. ... That approach leans heavily on ...

The original proposal would have mandated phonics instruction in K-12 classrooms. The latest version makes that optional. ... the ability to sound words out and other literacy basics.

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 ...

But teachers there use a phonics-based approach that’s tailored to English learners, with good results. A student will learn to sound out the word “hop,” for example, while seeing a picture of a ...