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.

Schools try new approach to teach students to read 04:00. Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of ...

“Kids are not being taught how to read because for decades teachers have been sold an idea about reading and how children learn to do it,” Emily Hanford, a public radio journalist who for ...

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.

In 2023, 43% of Oakland County students, nearly 65,000 kids, fell into “the literacy gap,” according to Beyond Basic’s assessment of Michigan Department of Education reports.

For many children, the debate over how to teach reading doesn’t matter much. The process of looking at letters, words and entire texts and turning them into something a person understands is ...

ANTI-PHONICS FROM THE START. ... The principal was giddy with this whole language approach, teaching children to love writing and reading rather than labor through words using phonics rules.

Today, states — both red and blue — are pass laws that emphasize the teaching of reading using proven evidence-based methods such as phonics instruction. 7 Nearly 70% of the nation’s fourth ...

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

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can ...

Beginning this fall, schools must teach children to sound out words instead of memorizing word lists as they learn to read By Kathleen Moore , Staff Writer Dec 9, 2024 ...