“We must keep the good parts of whole language and keep the pendulum from swinging all the way back to all phonics all the time.” I realize the proficient versus grade-level issue is not addressed in ...

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The importance of phonics education Kindergarten to grade Three: Every child deserves rich literacy teaching. We want all the children to achieve success in their reading and writing so that they can ...

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.

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

“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 ...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased.