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 ...

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 ...

Phonics is a cornerstone skill, both in the context of the Science of Reading as well as across curricula. If students do not have the basic ability to read words on a page, any other instruction a ...

Lawrence Public Library, pictured Aug. 20, 2015. Phonics is the key to unlocking literacy skills among Lawrence K-12 students, according to educator Barbara Mullen, and the use of other methods to ...

North Carolina lawmakers are requiring the state’s public schools to go back to the basics and use phonics to teach young children how to read. The state House voted 113-5 on Thursday to pass ...

Detroit made headlines in March when National Assessment of Educational Progress scores showed that only 5% of the city's 8th graders can read on grade level. In 2018, that number was 7%. Shutterstock ...

Willem Hollmann is affiliated with the Committee for Linguistics in Education (CLiE) and with the Education Committee of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB). Cathie Wallace is ...

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...

Madam Mabel Kyeraah Twum, the Intellectual School Quiz Mistress has stated that teaching Jolly Phonics at the preschool level, helps boost writing and reading skills in pupils. Madam Twum said Jolly ...