As the results of the Year One Phonics Check are made available, this is how you can help your child if they score below the ...

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.

Chapter One recommends that every child spend 15 minutes a day playing phonics games that are synced to the tutoring instruction and change as the student progresses. The researchers did not yet have ...

The issue became more political when the 2000 Republican Party platform called for “an early start in phonics,” and when President George W. Bush embraced phonics with a major initiative ...

In a recent session, about 10 children interacted with instructors, playing card games based on reading sounds or working their way through colorful workbooks.

To the editor: Along the lines of using phonics to teach children how to read, I would observe that a large number of children in California schools have homes where English is not the first language.

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.