She acknowledges that phonics is part of learning to read ... of adult readers. And it really shed a lot of light on how it is that reading takes place in the brain. It found that while we ...

Denise Amos says that California districts encourage students to memorize words, and believes they should instead be using phonics. As a former reading specialist, I know that both phonics and ...

Over the past year, new systematic reviews have shed light on what the evidence really says about teaching kids to read. The simple conclusion is that a combination of phonics and whole language ...

We, too, worry about schools not effectively teaching what many believe is the building block of reading instruction, phonics. That needs to be corrected. But phonics, which has made its way to ...

Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman fellow in education at The Heritage Foundation and the author of “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth” (Post Hill Press ...

To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño fears overemphasizing foundational skills such as phonics will take time away from writing, favor already advantaged children and ignore the ...

For decades, schools dropped phonics-based models in favor of memorization. This half-baked idea was implemented throughout the country with disastrous results. Bad ideas sometimes work — until ...

That’s why it’s promising Michigan passed legislation last year to require a “science of reading” approach — a phonics-based reading curriculum — in kindergarten through 3rd grade.

New York City officials said Tuesday that the city will require all of its elementary schools to employ phonics programs in teaching children to read, saying alternate systems that have been in ...

Primary school children in Victoria will increasingly be taught to read via a teaching method called 'phonics'. It's a way of explicitly teaching sounds, which enables children to decipher ...