It is 2pm, and a seven-year-old boy sits in an after-school Urdu remedial class, his fingers tracing the unfamiliar curves of ...

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

There has been much discussion at the Columbus Board of Education and in social media regarding the district’s score below which 3rd grade teachers are required to complete a Reading Improvement ...

To teach children to read, we must keep the good parts of the whole language reading approach and keep away from going back to all phonics all the time.

Letters to the Editor: Phonics gets kids over an early reading hump. What happens after that? A teacher works with sixth- and seventh-graders on a phonics lesson in Poway, Calif., in January 2020.

In response to Mona Charen’s Tuesday column supporting phonics reading instruction: The idea that English is a phonetic language is laughable. One symbol, one sound is a great idea. But that’s ...

The phonics vs. whole-language debate in literacy education doesn't mean anything if kids glued to their smartphones aren't encouraged by their families to read.

Phonics Rises From the Ashes Morris, Minn. Thanks to Stephen Metcalf for his informed article "Reading Between the Lines" [Jan. 28]. There is another winner from Bush's education act: Ignite!

In addition to phonics, the study of root words, prefixes and suffixes is essential. Reading also entails background knowledge, comprehension and vocabulary.

Today, children are taught to read using phonics, which is all about the sounds that make up words. Children start by learning the letters and the sounds they make, and how to put them together to ...