By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways ...

Phonics is the base for learning English. Unfortunately, it was cast aside during the whole-language movement. (“‘I Literally Cried': Teachers Describe Their Transition to Science-Based Reading ...

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 worked ...

To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño fears overemphasizing foundational skills such as phonics will take time away from writing, favor already advantaged children and ignore the needs of ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

ALBANY — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she will try to throw out the current way reading is taught and require all schools to teach phonics, a once widely used system that has had a rebirth ...

The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.

Dominic Wyse receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust; the Nuffield Foundation; the Leverhulme Trust; and The Monday Charitable Trust. Alice Bradbury receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust, ...

North Carolina lawmakers are requiring the state’s public schools to go back to the basics and use phonics to teach young children how to read. The state House voted 113-5 on Thursday to pass ...

Madam Mabel Kyeraah Twum, the Intellectual School Quiz Mistress has stated that teaching Jolly Phonics at the preschool level, helps boost writing and reading skills in pupils. Madam Twum said Jolly ...