This post — written by David Reinking, Peter Smagorinsky, and David B. Yaden — looks at the debate on phonics in a different way than is most often voiced these days. It notes, among other ...

Marion Joseph died in 2022 and therefore cannot celebrate what at long last is happening in California to improve children’s ...

Why do California’s fourth graders have trouble reading? Nearly 60 percent of them do not read at grade level. Literacy rates ...

Hence, phonics plays a vital part in what’s known as the “science of reading. ... “pony,” the answer is accepted because “pony” and “horse” are basically the same.

Phonics is the answer to illiteracy in Chicago Public Schools Americans cast off a winning method to improve literacy. Replacing it with what?

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 ...

Regarding the March 12 editorial “Yes, U.S. children should be hooked on phonics”: I am a volunteer with Reading Partners, tutoring children at elementary schools in D.C. to bring them to ...

With phonics win, Banks proves himself the champion NYC kids need The problem is, the way we teach literacy isn’t the only mistake we continue to make in our schools. Our kids spend a lot of ...

Reid Lyon, Chief of the National Institutes of Health Child Behavior & Development Department, talked about phonics and the George W. Bush administration's view on teaching phonics. He also ...

Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul wants to see New York’s public schools go back to the basics when it comes to reading education, and that means a return to phonics-based learning ...