Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade.

A bill asking educators to adopt the "science of reading" emphasizes phonics. Will enough California teachers respond?

California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use ...

Those concepts are phonics (the relationship between letters and sounds); phonemic awareness ... different sounds that make them up — "b-l-u-e" just meant "blue." Now students are taught ...

Phonics strategies begin by teaching children to recognize letters and make their corresponding sounds. Then they advance to manipulating and blending first-letter sounds to read and write simple ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

As the Feb. 24 article states, Louisiana is using the "science of reading" emphasizing phonics and teaching students to "decipher words letter by letter and sound by sound." The results ...

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Some have stressed the importance of phonics, which involves understanding the relationship between written letters and their associated sounds, allowing students to “decode” words. A “whole language” ...