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.

Teaching phonics to kids is cheap but has a big pay-off. As the federal government looks for cost effective education reforms, teaching reading using phonics is an obvious place to start.

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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 ...

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.

If children can’t master phonics, they are more likely to struggle to read. That’s why researchers say explicit, systematic instruction in phonics is important: Teachers must lead students step by ...

Teaching our kids to read is about more than sounding out words or summarizing texts. True reading comprehension requires more of students — and of schools.

She supplemented me with a good dose of phonics education. It must have made a difference, because in third grade I was asked to coach a few lagging readers on the side. It shocked me to find how ...

Phonics teaching in England needs to change – our new research points to a better approach Published: January 19, 2022 8:48am EST. Dominic Wyse, Alice Bradbury, UCL. Authors.

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