A new California law is pushing for phonics-based reading instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

The phonics screening check is so closely correlated with month of birth that it can be argued that it is a test of age rather than decoding.

While not mandatory, the law provides support for phonics — focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out — to ...

Elizabeth Nonweiler has written to Education Minister Lynne Neagle saying Wales' literacy panel has achieved next to nothing ...

The “reading wars” that raged in American schools for decades finally seem to be ending. The victor is clear: Phonics is the ...

Massachusetts House leaders plan to pass a bill this week that that would require school curriculums and teacher training be ...

Data from a ‘phonics check’ of new entrants is too incomplete to draw firm conclusions from, and word recognition is not the ...

Some advocates and parents are worried the state's new literacy laws won't be enough to move districts not already embracing ...

Donald Trump is exhibiting a “massive increase” in “clinical signs of dementia,” exacerbating the president’s “malignant ...

In a new book, researcher Timothy Shanahan argues that giving students easy texts is holding back US reading achievement ...

As educators across Oklahoma look for ways to close literacy gaps, the Reading League Oklahoma is helping teachers gain the tools and training they need to help every student learn to read — not just ...