Phonics, once called phonetics ... and a broadening of public state and city universities’ credentialing programs in science of reading instruction. State Education Commissioner Betty Rosa ...

In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind consumer protection lawsuit, two Massachusetts families are suing famed literacy ...

Nancy Ichinaga, the principal of an elementary school in the Los Angeles area that uses a phonics-based reading program, told me, "It's like learning a code; we like learning a secret code.

A grandmother from Menlo Park dubbed the “Paul Revere of the Reading Wars," she was a crusader for phonics instruction, which focuses on the relationships between the letters of written language and ...

Strengthen Skills, Build Confidence, Enjoy Reading These single-grade programs teach key reading skills, from phonics and sight words for younger children to comprehension, reading speed, and textbook ...

Decodable books are a type of reading material that allows young or struggling readers to hone their phonics skills by exposing them to a selection of letter-sound correspondences that they’ve ...

Both Calkins’ curriculum and those created by Fountas and Pinnell were the focus of “Sold A Story,” the award-winning podcast by APM Reports that detailed the genesis of the cueing method—in which ...

But that should be alongside or embedded in a more comprehensive reading program, he wrote in a recent blog post. In order to be able to read well, students need more than just phonics – they ...

The lawsuit, which names as defendants Lucy Calkins, Gay Su Pinnell, and Irene Fountas, in addition to their companies and ...

The dispute over reading instruction is just the opposite: in California everybody now claims allegiance to a "balanced approach" incorporating whole-language and phonics, but the truth is that ...

Phonics is a method of teaching reading, writing, and spelling by focusing on the relationship between sounds and letters or ...

The Iowa Department of Education will hand out 100,000 book packs — 1 million books in all — to first grade students this ...