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.

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 ...

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).

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 ...