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.

A new study has found evidence of big gains in students’ reading ability from using one specific phonics program—and suggests that consistent implementation is key to getting the strongest ...

Inside the national effort to spread the science of reading and improve U.S. reading proficiency rates through phonics-based instruction.

More American schools are now favoring the “science of reading" which focuses on phonics and vocabulary building block lessons over traditional “whole language" teaching.

There are many theories about the best way to teach reading: science of reading, whole language, balanced literacy. So what works best?

Phonics was one of the tried and true methods that was used to teach reading back in the day (I’m almost 80). Even now, I use it to sound out new words that I come across.

Education Week tracks which states mandate that schools use evidence-based methods to teach young students how to read.

Instead, a “science of reading” — or phonics-based — approach to literacy means students are taught the individual sounds of vowels, consonants, groupings of letters, phonograms and other ...

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.

“Phonics” describes methods of teaching reading that emphasise teaching how phonemes – the smallest sounds in the words of oral language – are represented by letters.