Regarding the March 12 editorial “Yes, U.S. children should be hooked on phonics”: I am a volunteer with Reading Partners, tutoring children at elementary schools in D.C. to bring them to ...

Letters to the Editor: No, the ‘science of reading’ isn’t just about teaching phonics Gov. Gavin Newsom reads a book to kindergarteners at the Washington Elementary School in Sacramento in 2019.

But from what administrators say they understand of AB 1121, it would mandate having the "science of learning" as a portion of learning to read, and teaching students phonics among other methods.

Principal Jane Mueller: Teach phonics, by all means, but don't deprive students of other essential learning tools. The study declares: "The 'reading wars' that pitted systematic phonics against ...

When Julia Gillard launched the draft of Australia's first ever national curriculum in 2010 she welcomed the "strong appearance" of grammar.

Phonics is essential in the early stages of learning to read but sight words have their place too, according to a new study that aims to end the reading wars.