A phonics assessment is an essential and powerful tool that takes the guesswork out of phonics instruction—so that teachers can focus on what their students need most to become strong, ...

Few decisions a society makes are as consequential as how it teaches children to read. Children who can’t read proficiently ...

efficient model that supports earlier student application of phonics skills aligned to the science of reading." The adoption is part of the district's ongoing investment in literacy as it works toward ...

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.

This post — written by David Reinking, Peter Smagorinsky, and David B. Yaden — looks at the debate on phonics in a different way than is most often voiced these days. It notes, among other ...

If we focus on phonics instruction that is removed from actual reading, students will continue to fail assessments like NAEP. More importantly, they are unlikely to become successful, self ...

Benjamin Adlard Primary School sees all its Year 1 children achieve 100% success in phonics tests for the second year running ...

Critics of the state’s $11.3 million update to its existing literacy assessment tool, known as the English Online Interview, say schools would have been better off using the free phonics test ...

Link to Resource: Teacher Reactions to the Phonics Content Referenced Growth Reporting Prototype: Findings from Interviews Authors: Nicolás Buchbinder, Olivia Cox, Erik Whitfield* *Authors listed in ...

Phonics — explicit literacy teaching focusing on the sounds in words — is being introduced into the Victorian curriculum despite resistance from the Australian Education Union.

All grade 1 students will be tested early in 2023, in a session with a teacher applying an online English assessment tool that uses phonics to gauge the child’s reading ability.