“We are now adopting the Bluebonnet phonics component. So the reading is split into skills and knowledge. Skills is the ...

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. By Arthur Jones II , Tal Axelrod , and Jay O'Brien ...

Based on easily obtained public data online, it is clear to me that the California public school system is not properly ...

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 ...

The stakes are high, as California's reading scores have stagnated since the pandemic. Nearly 60% of third graders weren't reading at grade level last year, with some student groups faring even worse.

Nearly 60% of third-graders aren’t reading at grade level. A new bill would require schools to use a phonics-based approach to teach students.

Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though). 2. English is a difficult ...

Her child, who uses they/them pronouns, was in second grade when the family enrolled them at an elementary school in Los Angeles County that was using a phonics-based curriculum. Although her child ...

As Fort Worth Independent School District officials reviewed their official spring 2025 state test scores on Tuesday with an overall celebration of academic gains, leaders acknowledged that the work ...

Washington, D.C., students showed big gains in fourth grade reading and eighth grade math. In fact, D.C. Public Schools was the only large district to show test-score gains in three of the four ...

All state school students from prep to grade 2 will learn to read using the same explicit teaching method within two years, after the state’s powerful teachers’ union reached a deal with the ...