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.

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In 2023, 43% of Oakland County students, nearly 65,000 kids, fell into “the literacy gap,” according to Beyond Basic’s assessment of Michigan Department of Education reports.

Phonics — explicit literacy teaching focusing on the sounds in words — is being introduced into the Victorian curriculum despite resistance from the Australian Education Union.

Phonics — explicit literacy teaching focusing on the sounds in words — is being introduced into the Victorian curriculum ...

1. Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though).

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the ...

Schools try new approach to teach students to read 04:00. Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of ...

When I became Victoria’s Education Minister 12 months ago, little did I know I’d be stepping into a half century-long policy debate about how we teach our kids the basics of reading.

Today, states — both red and blue — are pass laws that emphasize the teaching of reading using proven evidence-based methods such as phonics instruction. 7 Nearly 70% of the nation’s fourth ...