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.

Next week, the unpopular teacher licensure test, the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, will be officially retired ...

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 ...

Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade.

As a former reading specialist, I know that both phonics and memorization, “sight words,” are needed. If there were one system that worked, we’d all be using it. One system alone doesn’t work.

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below ...

Phonics was one of the tried and true methods that was used to teach reading back in the day (I’m almost 80). Even now, I use it to sound out new words that I come across.

The California Reading Coalition, an advocacy group, surveyed 300 districts statewide in 2022 and found that 80% were using older curriculum that didn't focus sufficiently on phonics.

That approach leans heavily on phonics — relying on letter and rhyming sounds to read words such as cat, hat and rat. Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 ...

Teachers drill students on reading words using phonics concepts like those blends, including the "d-r" combinations that Kyng and his classmates were working with in the Logan Elementary class. ...

Too many of California’s children cannot read. Schools must do things differently to change that, and they should start with ...