It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of the words before him. The sentence on the page seems simple enough: “Yeh ...

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Introducing phonics, emphasis on lowercase letters first, and make learning engaging and entertaining. Through patience and the right attitude, parents can give their children a lifelong literacy ...

The actions fall a bit short of requiring local school districts to adopt phonics, but they go a long way toward achieving Marion Joseph’s goal.

Two Cuyahoga County schools are among those receiving part of a $46 million federal grant to implement the phonics-based Science of Reading approach mandated statewide.

Teacher associations and ­experts have called for more thorough testing and the teacher shortage to be ­addressed in the wake of new phonics and numeracy checks rolling out from this term.