It’s taken four decades, but using phonics to teach English soon could be state policy. Phonics is where kids are taught a ...

Phonics battle underscores public school failures Five Mountain View High school students helping fifth grade students at La Primaria Elementary School in El Monte Thursday, November 16, 2017.

EDUCATION More US schools embrace phonics lessons over traditional ‘whole language’ teaching More American schools are now favoring 'building block' lessons to regain ground lost during COVID ...

U.S. literacy rates, even through spikes in immigration, were once exceptional. Reading, writing and language skills were emphasized in schools, and the methodology was simple: phonics.

Panther Valley, though, used grants, donations and Covid relief money to buy a new phonics curriculum. The school also recently added 40 minutes of targeted, small-group phonics at the end of ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It ...

Two schools of thought have clashed on how to teach children to read, with passionate backers on each side of the so-called reading wars.

Phonics stresses fundamental instruction in the letters and letter combinations that make up sounds, thus allowing children to “sound out” words and later whole sentences and passages.

Two Thirds of American Kids Can’t Read Fluently Phonics may be a popular way to teach reading, but it fails too many children By Marion Blank Myrleen Pearson/Alamy Stock Photo Education ...

As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature.

EdReports, the nonprofit curriculum reviewer, is shining a spotlight on early reading—the group announced that it will start releasing evaluations of supplemental phonics programs for K-2.