As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court.

I knew that memorizing things and just pushing things on kids was not going to teach them to love reading." A new administration eventually followed Pleasant's phonics-focused lead and ...

South Carolina schools are going all in on the "science of reading," an approach to teaching reading that's largely focused ...

And it heavily focuses on phonics. The science of reading and phonics are ways that teach children to read through a really sequenced introduction to the sounds and letter combinations that make ...

The battle over the best way to teach children how to read has re-erupted in the California Legislature, as dueling factions haggle over a bill that would mandate a phonics-based style of reading ...

Phonics instructs children to identify letters and their pronunciation to construct words, supplying the tools needed to tackle combinations of letters. “Cueing” and its related methods ...

Phonics strategies begin by teaching children to recognize letters and make their corresponding sounds. Then they advance to manipulating and blending first-letter sounds to read and write simple ...

It’s how kids were taught to read throughout most of history. “There is science behind proving that a phonics-based curriculum actually gets kids reading,” Good says. “When you learn to ...