This time, though, the manufactured outrage over an imagined lack of phonics is masking the real attack on reading: the huge uptick in book bans across the nation.

Whole Phonics is changing that. Founded by learning specialist Jill Lauren, ... Whole Phonics: Transforming Literacy, One Book at a Time by: Marysol Castro, Tracy Chevrier.

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.

Then I returned with my family to the United States in 1999, and I found that even reading was political: Republicans endorsed phonics, so I was expected as a good liberal to roll my eyes.

Part of my instruction in reading when I was a very young child included an introduction to simple phonics. But that was just the beginning, because “reading” isn’t simply matching sounds to ...

Demand for phonics-based resources is expected to grow with the first ever national reading test for six-year-olds scheduled for the week of 18th June.

The two started looking for comic book series that taught phonics, but they came up empty. “We kind of looked at each other and said, ‘Well, ...