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.

EdReports, the nonprofit curriculum reviewer, released its first reviews of foundational reading and writing skills programs on Wednesday—and none of the materials met the evaluator’s highest standard ...

Phonics is a much debated area of literacy teaching, with disagreement between the use of a mixed approach (which includes an element of phonics) or phonics as the predominant method of word ...

Research has questioned the impact of synthetic phonics teaching, which was backed by a government literacy review. The government-commissioned research said synthetic phonics improved reading ...

By providing strategies that combine letter sounds with motions, teachers help students learn to decode words in the ways ...

We appreciated the recent article on the National Council on Teacher Quality report (“Colleges earn low grades on preparing reading teachers,” Page A1, June 14). Reading is one of the most studied ...

This study examined the reading achievement patterns of impulsives and reflectives under varying phonics approaches in beginning reading instruction. The study used 170 second grade students who were ...

The teaching of reading has always been controversial and methods such as phonics - which teaches children the constituent sounds of words - have been in and out of fashion. Phonics is an accepted ...