Children aged 6 are tested in phonics and the results are entered into the national pupil database, with those data used to hold the schools and teachers to account.

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.

The problem is, the way we teach literacy isn’t the only mistake we continue to make in our schools. Our kids spend a lot of time on irrelevant nonsense.

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can ...

Re “‘Kids Can’t Read,’ and the Education Establishment Faces a Revolt” (news article, April 16): Congratulations to Sarah Mervosh for her article about reading instruction that gets ...

Rosa Higgs, a Black educator with more than 50 years of experience, created the Phonics workbook series Read in 40 to teach Black students to read at or above grade level. The program teaches ...

Beginning this fall, schools must teach children to sound out words instead of memorizing word lists as they learn to read By Kathleen Moore, Staff Writer Dec 9, 2024 ...

Phonics is the key to unlocking literacy skills among Lawrence K-12 students, according to educator Barbara Mullen, and the use of other methods to teach reading, especially to kids with dyslexia ...

To the Editor: Re “ We’re Bad at Teaching Kids to Read,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, Feb. 12): Mr. Kristof has sadly jumped on the current “phonics” bandwagon.

For many children, the debate over how to teach reading doesn’t matter much. The process of looking at letters, words and entire texts and turning them into something a person understands is ...

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can ...