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

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California’s reading wars may finally be over. After decades of debate over how to teach reading, a new bill aims to use ...

Score one huge win for Chancellor David Banks and Mayor Eric Adams: The city Department of Education is at long last insisting that schools use phonics and other proven strategies to teach kids to ...

Many families whose children have reading problems, she has discovered, would benefit from free sequential phonics program books. The best are hundreds of pages long ... a lot of kids need ...

but critics have also long expressed concerns that rote phonics lessons are boring, prevent kids from learning to love reading and distract from the ability to understand meaning in text.

Phonics has little or nothing to do with it ... Let’s give these human achievements the respect they deserve. Linda Mele Johnson, Long Beach The writer is a former reading teacher and the ...

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Learning to read at four won’t necessarily make a child a better reader long-term, or a better student ... Why hothouse kids in phonics - while funnelling money to companies that promise ...

When it became clear that my daughter was also among the roughly half of all kids who will not read fluidly without explicit phonics instruction, I left my job, in part to help. I also embarked on ...