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Summer is the perfect season to soak up the sun, spend more time outdoors, and refresh your daily routine. If you’re looking ...

Last year, after decades of unsuccessful efforts to overhaul how Los Angeles County is governed, a minor miracle occurred ...

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.

The phases provide milestones to guide instruction from preschool to grade two reading proficiency.

Those concepts are phonics (the relationship between letters ... "b-l" is a blend of two consonant sounds that comes at the beginning of a word, while "u-e" is a team of vowels dominated by ...

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction ... schools to align their approaches to teaching beginning reading with the research base in how students ...

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 ...

Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman fellow in education at The Heritage Foundation and the author of “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth” (Post Hill Press ...

ALBANY — Phonics is king again ... She found that she had to go back to the beginning and teach them the sounds for each letter. “Phonemic awareness — I cannot emphasize that enough ...

At the beginning of a lesson, students read from a sheet containing ... I have students read timed word lists at the start of phonics lessons, typically giving them one minute per list. They can ...

Brown is in the process of developing a curriculum designed to teach the alphabet, letter sounds, beginning phonics, writing, vocabulary and more for kids ages 4 to 7. Her hope is to inspire ...