Third grade is the earliest grade tested by the state. The reading program itself is intended to benefit students from transitional kindergarten — age 4 — through third grade.

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 ...

Phonics, Whole-word And Whole-language Processes Add Up To Determine Reading Speed, Study Shows. ScienceDaily . Retrieved May 1, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2007 / 08 ...

As phonics took hold in U.S. schools in the 1970s, fourth–graders began to do better on standardized reading tests. In the 1980s, California replaced its phonics curriculum with a whole language ...

New research suggests that relying on phonics, a method of learning where an individual sounds out words, helps students to learn reading faster when compared with the whole-language technique ...