When Hooked on Phonics launched its Android app in 2013, the brand found itself in unfamiliar terrain: app stores instead of ...

As the results of the Year One Phonics Check are made available, this is how you can help your child if they score below the ...

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.

Few decisions a society makes are as consequential as how it teaches children to read. Children who can’t read proficiently ...

Submit your letter to the editor via this form.Read more Letters to the Editor.. Phonics alone won’t get kids reading. Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17 ...

Nearly 60% of third-graders aren’t reading at grade level. A new bill would require schools to use a phonics-based approach to teach students.

“We are now adopting the Bluebonnet phonics component. So the reading is split into skills and knowledge. Skills is the ...

Amos: Too many California kids can’t read. Will phonics help? Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade ...

The new bill, AB 1121, would require all schools to use a method based on the so-called "science of reading," which emphasizes phonics. Last year, an almost identical bill died in the Assembly ...

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.

Reading programs that are heavily focused on phonics are too narrow and confusing for students who struggle with English, especially if they can’t understand what they’re reading, they said. Marcela ...

Some school districts in California, including Los Angeles Unified, the largest district in the state, already use curricula that’s focused on phonics. But about 80% of districts don’t ...