To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

Corrected: A previous version of this story misstated the university where Tanya Wright is an associate professor. She works at Michigan State University. Matthews, Mo. What do you do when hear a word ...

Test scores at 66 of the state’s lowest-performing schools strongly outpaced similar schools after educators adopted phonics-based instruction, offering some of the most compelling evidence to date ...

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...

Detroit made headlines in March when National Assessment of Educational Progress scores showed that only 5% of the city's 8th graders can read on grade level. In 2018, that number was 7%. Shutterstock ...

Disney lives up to its rep as a premier name in entertainment with the Pooh early-learning series and Phonics Quest. Each program has cinematic animation, creative story lines, characters that exude ...

Books on the shelf at M.H. Moore Elementary School on Aug. 13, 2024. Amanda McCoy [email protected] The Fort Worth Independent School District is adopting a new phonics program that officials ...

A recent New York Times article threatens to revive longstanding misconceptions about phonics. Teaching children to sound out words in a way that’s backed by science shouldn’t carry political baggage.