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

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

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

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

Porter-Magee, K. (2025). “ Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading: New book touts the critical role teachers ...

First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...

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.

At North Florida School of Special Education in Jacksonville, Horse Powered Reading program allays students' learning anxiety and boosts skills.

Nationally, fourth grade students’ reading scores have been sliding for a long time.  But in the past five years, Louisiana ...

The bill’s passage marks a rare setback for the Massachusetts Teachers Association, although the legislation still needs ...

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 ...