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.

Schools try new approach to teach students to read 04:00. Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of ...

“Kids are not being taught how to read because for decades teachers have been sold an idea about reading and how children learn to do it,” Emily Hanford, a public radio journalist who for ...

How phonics is making a comeback as millions of kids struggle to read "I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said.

1. Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though).

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.

ANTI-PHONICS FROM THE START. ... The principal was giddy with this whole language approach, teaching children to love writing and reading rather than labor through words using phonics rules.

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can ...

Today, states — both red and blue — are pass laws that emphasize the teaching of reading using proven evidence-based methods such as phonics instruction. 7 Nearly 70% of the nation’s fourth ...

Teaching children to read is our moral duty and at the very heart of public education. Families should not have to hire tutors to fix what schools should be teaching correctly in the first place.

Beginning this fall, schools must teach children to sound out words instead of memorizing word lists as they learn to read By Kathleen Moore , Staff Writer Dec 9, 2024 ...