The once-abandoned instructional approach is back in place in South Dakota in hopes of improving students’ reading comprehension.

It’s out with the new and in with the old again for students in South Dakota’s English and Language Arts classrooms.

South Dakota officially took a step in a better direction Monday when the state’s Board of Education Standards approved revisions to English Language standards that’ll embrace the use of phonics ...

I would like to befuddle you with news about [U] and three diphthongs. [Y] is used to represent /u/. Sometimes it is a ...

We look forward to the day when these dismal reading proficiency scores are viewed as a scandal rather than encouraging news.

The nonprofit "Sounds Academy" is celebrating 10 years in the Valley, making sure a child’s zip code does not determine their ...

A student will learn to sound out the word “hop,” for example ... “If you see that a majority of kids aren’t reading at grade level, and we know that explicit (phonics) instruction works, it seems ...

A student will learn to sound out the word “hop,” for example ... “If you see that a majority of kids aren’t reading at grade ...

Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a wide-sweeping district restructuring, phonics lessons will be ...