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.

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

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

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

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 ...

Phonics is an important skill for young children learning to read. Four out of five Year 1 primary school pupils passed their phonics screening tests this year.