New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

Phonics is a method that teaches children how to read by linking letters together based on sound groups. Together, these alphabetical combinations can aid children to easily begin pairing them by ...

Kindergarten students Gabby Kim, left, and Ellie Such answer questions on a literacy lesson during Julie Celestial's kindergarten class at Mark Twain Elementary School in Long Beach. For the record: 4 ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...

Test scores at 66 of the state’s lowest-performing schools strongly outpaced similar schools after educators adopted phonics-based instruction, offering some of the most compelling evidence to date ...

My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...

Evidence-based reading research, or what many refer to as the Science of Reading, has been a much-discussed topic within the literacy landscape for the past few years. While it may seem like the “next ...

At a meeting with parents in May, Elizabeth Phillips, a longtime principal at P.S. 321, a highly sought-after elementary school in Park Slope, didn’t mince words about the new reading curricula being ...

Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...

4:16 p.m. June 2, 2025: An earlier version of this report incorrectly said teaching phonics was new to Long Beach Unified. Some phonics has been taught in the district for years, but a new focus on ...

K. Dara Hill does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Back in 2017, the families of children in some of California's worst-performing public schools sued the state for failing to teach low-income black and Hispanic children how to read. This led to a ...