Ms. Prim is asking for materials such as watercolor paint sets, phonics games and colored pencils. She believes children who are engaged in math and language arts games improve their learning.

She said the phonics programming is helping students catch up in the foundational reading skill of sounding out and decoding words rather than guessing. A room of 15 kids worked in small groups with ...

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.

On a chilly Tuesday back in January, my 7-year-old son’s classroom in Minneapolis was humming with reading activities. At their desks, first- and second-graders wrote on worksheets, read ...

After years of disappointing results, the school district has turned to a method based on phonics that is said to show promise.

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased.

So why are games developed for young learners having such a difficult time entering classrooms? Let's take a look at a few reasons why.