"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

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

LONDON: Amazon Prime Video has added EnablinGenius’s animated series Phonics School to its library of edutainment content. Phonics School tells the story of Phonikers, the letters of the alphabet, as ...

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

As your child approaches the start of primary school, it is a good idea to play games that help with their understandings of word sounds. Great ideas for these include exploring rhymes and words that ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

The “reading wars” have been around for longer than you might think. In the 1800s, Horace Mann, the “father of public education” who was the first state education secretary in the country (in ...

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.

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Phonics tests for six year olds have started in schools in England. But what do parents need to know about this system for learning to read? Phonics has been promoted by the government as the best way ...