California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use phonics to solve the state’s literacy crisis.

How phonics is making a comeback as millions of kids struggle to read "I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. By Arthur Jones II, Tal Axelrod, and Jay O'Brien.

Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though). 2.

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I spent much of the 1980s and 1990s as a New York Times correspondent in East Asia, and children there (including mine) learned to read through phonics and phonetic alphabets: hiragana in Japan ...

First, phonics knowledge does not always translate into skillfully comprehending text.Some students can decode words quickly and smoothly but still not deeply understand what they are reading ...

For decades, K-12 schools have wandered away from a time-tested, research-based method of teaching reading: phonics. Student scores have plunged to historic lows, but some states are turning back ...

With phonics win, Banks proves himself the champion NYC kids need The problem is, the way we teach literacy isn’t the only mistake we continue to make in our schools. Our kids spend a lot of ...

Regarding the March 12 editorial “Yes, U.S. children should be hooked on phonics”: I am a volunteer with Reading Partners, tutoring children at elementary schools in D.C. to bring them to ...

Every school district in New York must revert to teaching phonics in grades pre-K through third, starting this fall, the Board of Regents decided Monday.

Dandenong South Primary School student Mikayla Lumanovski took part in a one-on-one phonics check as part of a pilot program in February. Credit: Simon Schluter All grade 1 students will be tested ...

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