When I was in second grade in the 1950s, my class spent Tuesday afternoons with a phonics workbook. Then it was a nice change from regular class, but I never imagined how much it would benefit me ...

4:16 p.m. June 2, 2025: An earlier version of this report incorrectly said teaching phonics was new to Long Beach Unified. Some phonics has been taught in the district for years, but a new focus ...

In his 1986 book about reading instruction, Insult to Intelligence ... One member of the California state board of education, a phonics man who is married to a third-grade teacher, ...

Regarding the March 12 editorial “Yes, U.S. children should be hooked on phonics”: I am a volunteer with Reading Partners, tutoring children at elementary schools in D.C. to bring them to ...

Heidi Anne E. Mesmer is a professor in literacy in the school of education at Virginia Tech. Her latest book is Letter Lessons and First Words: Phonics Foundations That Work (Heinemann, 2019).

Checking in on NYC's new phonics-based reading curriculum 03:06. NEW YORK - By their own admission, the New York City Public School system has failed its students.. Literacy is at the core of ...

McGuire, a fourth grade teacher at Governor Wentworth Regional School District, turned to her colleague Jackie Benson, a reading specialist. The two started looking for comic book series that ...