On cue, the 5- and 6-year-olds hold up cutout figures on sticks as they listen to their teacher, Kathy Bates, read Byron Barton’s “The Three Bears.” They recite certain lines, using deep voices for ...

A good many public figures maintain that the way to raise reading scores is to require that all children learn reading by the method known as “phonics.” ‘He had frogtank where he had hidden it,” reads ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the appropriate role of phonics in reading instruction? The role of phonics in reading instruction is often debated: how big, how small, and how should it be ...

ART CREDIT–> <!– CUTLINE TEXT Letter by letter: Judy Gibson of Pasadena takes a nontraditional approach to educating son Matthew, 5 1/2 , but relies on phonics in teaching reading. When parents teach ...

Test scores at 66 of the state’s lowest-performing schools strongly outpaced similar schools after educators adopted phonics-based instruction, offering some of the most compelling evidence to date ...

From the very beginning, children need to train their brains to recognize English sounds. If they do not recognize the sound, they won't hear what they need to. “As you read a book word by word and ...

New York's youngest students may soon see a renewed focus on phonics, as the pendulum in the age-old debate over how to teach reading swings toward the so-called "science of reading." Gov. Kathy ...

America’s kids aren’t learning how to read, a skill which forms the building blocks of nearly every other subject or discipline and a lifelong capacity for acquiring knowledge. That’s why it’s ...

Can you spell deja vu? 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 ...