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

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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

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.

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.

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below grade level on recent spring reading tests, new state data shows. That’s ...