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A former 10th-grade teacher warns parents and others entering the profession that students can’t read and regularly act out ...

Celestial was teaching a lesson that’s part of Long Beach Unified’s new focus: phonics. For the record: 4:16 p.m. June 2, 2025An earlier version of this report incorrectly said teaching ...

Those concepts are phonics (the relationship between letters and sounds); phonemic awareness (the ability to distinguish a language's sounds from one another); fluency (the ability to read quickly ...

The compromise between English learner advocates and those who back the so-called “science of reading” or “evidence-based” approach provides funding and support for phonics-focused ...

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 ...

Assembly Bill 1121 by Assembly member Blanca Rubio, D-West Covina, which would require public schools to use phonics-based reading curriculum rather than a whole-language system. The former helps ...

The new bill, AB 1121, would mandate the method of the "science of learning" which is a phonics-based teaching method. While teacher unions across the state have pushed back on similar bills ...

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 ...