The once-abandoned instructional approach is back in place in South Dakota in hopes of improving students’ reading comprehension.

South Dakota officially took a step in a better direction Monday when the state’s Board of Education Standards approved revisions to English Language standards that’ll embrace the use of phonics ...

It’s out with the new and in with the old again for students in South Dakota’s English and Language Arts classrooms.

More than half of third-graders did not meet the state’s bar for reading proficiency last spring, while fourth- and ...

This Forest of Dean school is a family first place where kindness leads learning and phonics helps readers grow ...

Lawmakers in some states are trying to ban the "cueing" approach, which asks students to rely on pictures or context clues to ...

We look forward to the day when these dismal reading proficiency scores are viewed as a scandal rather than encouraging news.

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 ...