As the results of the Year One Phonics Check are made available, this is how you can help your child if they score below the ...

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

Few decisions a society makes are as consequential as how it teaches children to read. Children who can’t read proficiently ...

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.

Submit your letter to the editor via this form.Read more Letters to the Editor.. Phonics alone won’t get kids reading. Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17 ...

This post — written by David Reinking, Peter Smagorinsky, and David B. Yaden — looks at the debate on phonics in a different way than is most often voiced these days. It notes, among other ...

How phonics is making a comeback as millions of kids struggle to read "I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. By Arthur Jones II, Tal Axelrod, and Jay O'Brien.

Calling phonics the “science of reading” is like calling the ability to name body parts the “science of biology.” To legislate it as the primary goal of elementary education is an absurd ...

Phonics-based reading instruction is back in U.S. public schools, and Catholic experts want parochial schools to review their own standards. A Service of EWTN News, Inc.

It can be dangerous to listen to kids — you’ll be talked into buying a video game — so read to them! ... “Yes, phonics matters, but how you do phonics matters, too, ...

Phonics isn’t new — it dates to at least the 19th century. What’s newer is the “whole language” approach to reading. The idea is to teach words rather than letters.

The argument is that some words break the phonics rules, so memorizing “sight words” is more effective. Words that break the rules include irregular verbs such as were, are and could.