Phonics-based reading instruction is back in U.S. public schools, and Catholic experts want parochial schools to review their own standards.

It’s taken four decades, but using phonics to teach English soon could be state policy. Phonics is where kids are taught a ...

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been ...

In response to our story about Illinois' renewed emphasis on teaching reading with phonics, dozens of you wrote to tell us how you learned to read. What you're saying: Though a few readers liked ...

Children do need phonics instruction. But, it should happen in the context of real reading, write two researchers.

Can you spell deja vu? The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics ...

A new scientific study that aims to end the so-called reading wars finds phonics is an essential foundation in the early stages of learning to read, but it's only part of the approach.

Why phonics instruction is not enough for English learners Preschool teacher Rosa Bounkhoune and student at Lighthouse for Children Child Development Center in Fresno.

Essentially, it’s a return to the basics: phonics. For years, South Carolina was among states that largely ditched phonics to instead teach a method called “three-cueing,” which encouraged children to ...

Inside the national effort to spread the science of reading and improve U.S. reading proficiency rates through phonics-based instruction.

Systematic phonics instruction helped children learn to read better than all forms of control group instruction, including whole language. In sum, systematic phonics instruction proved effective and ...

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