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, ...

Renaissance’s Star Assessments platform now connects with Nearpod, enabling teachers using the Star platform to access the Nearpod lesson library and resources without leaving Star, Renaissance said, ...

The Fort Worth Independent School District is adopting a new phonics program that officials say will further support the district's mission to turn around its stagnant academic performance and improve ...

The literacy performance assessment that replaces the RICA reflects an increased focus on foundational reading skills, including phonics. California, and many other states, are moving from teaching ...

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.

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

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

Samantha Hill, assistant head at the school, said the Key Stage One phonics screening check was not accessible for non-verbal students. "We have children in our school who don't speak," she said.

The phonics screening check is a statutory assessment in all of England’s state-funded primary schools - meaning children have to do it. Pupils sit the test at the end of Year 1, when most of ...

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 ...