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

It’s easy to be glib in describing these reading wars. Everyone agrees that phonics are necessary, and everyone also agrees that phonics are not enough. “Yes, phonics matters, ...

In a guest column, three researchers delve into the reading wars that often pit whole language against phonics as the best approach for struggling readers. David Reinking and David Yaden are ...

Many families whose children have reading problems, she has discovered, would benefit from free sequential phonics program books. The best are hundreds of pages long, with price tags as high as $100.

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

“We must keep the good parts of whole language and keep the pendulum from swinging all the way back to all phonics all the time.” I realize the proficient versus grade-level issue is not addressed in ...

Yes, effective instruction in phonics and other essential reading skills does help a child learn to read by age 8 or 9. The “science of reading” refers to beginning reading.

Phonics: Reading instruction that teaches students the sounds letters make and how those sounds combine in predictable patterns to form words. For example, ...

Against a backdrop of plummeting test scores and grim pandemic learning loss, the science of reading has been gaining traction, but literacy experts warn there are myriad challenges ahead. Solving the ...

Gov. Tony Evers had been opposed to the bill but his support may now be in play after bill author Rep. Joel Kitchens, R-Sturgeon Bay, revised a provision that would have required third graders who ...