As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court.

For decades, schools dropped phonics-based models in favor of memorization. This half-baked idea was implemented throughout the country with disastrous results. Bad ideas sometimes work — until ...

We, too, worry about schools not effectively teaching what many believe is the building block of reading instruction, phonics. That needs to be corrected. But phonics, which has made its way to ...

And it heavily focuses on phonics. The science of reading and phonics are ways that teach children to read through a really sequenced introduction to the sounds and letter combinations that make ...

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 ...

Many school districts have adopted an evidence-based literacy curriculum called the "science of reading" that features phonics as a critical component. Phonics strategies begin by teaching ...

The battle has reached into homes via commercials for Hooked on Phonics materials and through shoebox dioramas assigned by teachers seeking to instill a love of literature. But momentum has ...

A balanced approach In 2022 a landmark research paper by Wyse and Alice Bradbury concluded that a balanced approach to teaching reading was more effective than a narrow synthetic phonics approach ...

That’s why it’s promising Michigan passed legislation last year to require a “science of reading” approach — a phonics-based reading curriculum — in kindergarten through 3rd grade.

In October 2022, Mississippi reported some exhilarating news. After the state started using phonics to teach reading in 2013, its fourth-grade reading scores jumped from 49th to 29th in the nation ...

On Monday, the Board of Regents took on reading, deciding that every school district must revert to teaching phonics in grades pre-K through third, starting this fall. ALBANY — Phonics is king ...