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.

As test scores lag, there’s a growing debate between proponents of the “science of reading,” which emphasizes phonics, and traditional educators who prefer to instill a love of literature.

The magic of a kindergarten or 1st grade classroom comes in literally watching children grow as readers. Diverse learners walk in with varied amounts of background knowledge and knowledge of the ...

Phonics and phonemic awareness instruction is important for the challenges of helping all children reach grade level expectations in reading. However, rather than continuing to highlight the reading ...

HOOKED ON PHONICS IXL, a K-12 learning platform that serves more than 6 million students worldwide, is expanding its phonics offerings for Pre-K to first graders.The new phonics content is aimed at ...

A first-grade classroom at P.S. 249 in Brooklyn, a high-performing, high-poverty school that uses Professor Calkins’s reading, writing and phonics programs. Credit... Thalia Juarez for The New ...