A bill that asks California educators to adopt the "science of reading" emphasizing phonics, to help kids who can't read. Will it work?

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.

New Jersey’s youngest students should expect new tools in their classrooms this fall, as schools implement new laws to reboot reading instruction.

Phonics instruction has been a major point of contention in the decades-long "reading wars" — shorthand in education circles for the debate over the best way to teach children to read.

Teachers will now have access to greater resources to adopt a mandated phonics based approach to reading for prep to grade two students following a government deal with the teachers union.

What does the Year 1 phonics check involve? The phonics screening check is a statutory assessment in all of England’s state-funded primary schools - meaning children have to do it.

Phase 5 phonics is undoubtedly the most challenging element of phonics to teach and learn. Here we have expert advice and worksheets ...

For the first time, schools can use a purpose-built tool to check how a child is progressing in reading through te reo Māori. “Around 45 schools are trialling a New Zealand first te reo Māori ...

Teaching reading using phonics, which is to be mandatory for state schools, has received strong praise from this primary school in Melbourne’s south-east.

All Victorian public schools will teach phonics from next year as the government implements a back-to-basics education approach in a bid to improve young children’s literacy.