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.

Nearly 6 in 10 third graders scored below grade level on California’s reading tests during most of the last decade.

Phonics for Kids: Learn Short & Long A Sounds with Letter Tiles. Posted: March 10, 2025 | Last updated: March 23, 2025 "The Vowel A" teaches viewers about the short and long sounds of the vowel ...

Children need to point to each word. PHONICS SONGS plus is for all students, including students with reading difficulty and English as a Second Language.

To the editor: Along the lines of using phonics to teach children how to read, I would observe that a large number of children in California schools have homes where English is not the first language.

How phonics is making a comeback as millions of kids struggle to read "I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said.

“Kids are not being taught how to read because for decades teachers have been sold an idea about reading and how children learn to do it,” Emily Hanford, a public radio journalist who for ...

ANTI-PHONICS FROM THE START. I loved visiting classrooms where teachers taught reading in an immersive way, by having children write and illustrate stories, make books, and study children’s ...