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.

California schools use about half a dozen reading curricula, and some are more phonics-based than others. Typically, schools use a combination of programs and give teachers some leeway.

It’s easy to be glib in describing these reading wars. Everyone agrees that phonics are necessary, and everyone also agrees that phonics are not enough. “Yes, phonics matters, ...

The new bill, AB 1121, would require all schools to use a method based on the so-called “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics.Last year, an almost identical bill died in the Assembly ...

First, phonics knowledge does not always translate into skillfully comprehending text.Some students can decode words quickly and smoothly but still not deeply understand what they are reading ...

Phonics: Reading instruction that teaches students the sounds letters make and how those sounds combine in predictable patterns to form words. For example, ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

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

Phonics instruction has been a major point of contention in the decades-long "reading wars" — shorthand in education circles for the debate over the best way to teach children to read.

Submit your letter to the editor via this form.Read more Letters to the Editor.. Phonics alone won’t get kids reading. Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17 ...

Victorian state school grade one students will sit a new 10-minute literacy assessment under the state's move to phonics teaching for reading, which experts say will improve early intervention for ...

The California Reading Coalition, an advocacy group, surveyed 300 districts statewide in 2022 and found that 80% were using older curriculum that didn't focus sufficiently on phonics.