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.

On July 1, the unpopular Reading Instruction Competence Assessment will be replaced with a performance assessment to ensure ...

California schools use about half a dozen reading curricula, and some are more phonics-based than others. Typically, schools use a combination of programs and give teachers some leeway.

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.

Nearly 40 states have required phonics-based reading instruction in recent years. Some school districts in California, including Los Angeles Unified, the largest district in the state, already use ...

Jan. 3—WATERVLIET — Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul wants to see New York's public schools go back to the basics when it comes to reading education, and that means a return to phonics-based learning ...

One of the criticisms of phonics-based learning is that it wouldn't help every student. Administrators with Desert Sands and Palm Springs Unified School Districts say those critics are right, ...

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Learn and practice the sounds in set two! Help the wizards to make words and captions with i, n, m and d in this fun Phase 2 Phonics guide from BBC Bitesize.

Sound it out. Ph-o-n-i-c-s. You use the fundamental skill every day. Fort Worth ISD students, however, are not receiving enough instruction to master phonics, district officials said. As part of a ...

Every school district in New York must revert to teaching phonics in grades pre-K through third, starting this fall, the Board of Regents decided Monday.

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