Phonics teaching needs to be coupled with real reading practice, and teaching children strategies to read text at the appropriate level. Isolated drills, worksheets or computer games will not do ...

Assembly Bill 1454 would require the state Board of Education to adopt phonics-based instructional materials and include ...

The actions fall a bit short of requiring local school districts to adopt phonics, but they go a long way toward achieving Marion Joseph’s goal.

Marion Joseph died in 2022 and therefore cannot celebrate what at long last is happening in California to improve children’s abysmal levels of reading comprehension. Joseph, a renowned expert on ...