The International Literacy Association has put out a new brief endorsing “systematic and explicit” phonics in all early reading instruction. “English is an alphabetic language. We have 26 ...

“We are now adopting the Bluebonnet phonics component. So the reading is split into skills and knowledge. Skills is the ...

Based on easily obtained public data online, it is clear to me that the California public school system is not properly ...

Within the integrated solution, “Amira will recommend print Saxon resources and Saxon fluency titles will be available in Amira,” HMH said. “Amira assessment will drive instructional recommendations ...

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.

This support for teachers is especially important in upper elementary, middle, and high schools. “In older grades, the phonics piece isn’t in their wheelhouse,” said Kosek.

Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though). 2.

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.

Since 2010, five and six year-old children in England have been taught to read using a particular variant of “systematic phonics”. “Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that ...

The phonics resources include teaching books, software and games. The department also confirmed that there are 987 schools that have booked phonics training for their staff, spending £1.3m to improve ...