New California Law Pushes for Phonics in K-12 Schools

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing ...

Expect more phonics lessons in California schools under law Newsom signed

The law comes on the heels of a host of other literacy initiatives, including mandatory dyslexia screening and universal ...
National Catholic Register

Phonics Is Back; Did It Ever Leave Catholic Schools?

WASHINGTON — Back in the 1980s, when Mary Pat Donoghue completed her bachelor’s degree in elementary education, “Units of Study for Teaching Reading” was a popular new program that celebrated children ...
Education NextOpinion

Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading

Porter-Magee, K. (2025). “ Helping Kids Slip the Surly Bonds of Leveled Reading: New book touts the critical role teachers ...
Forbes

Let’s Not Make Phonics Political—Again

A recent New York Times article threatens to revive longstanding misconceptions about phonics. Teaching children to sound out words in a way that’s backed by science shouldn’t carry political baggage.
Science Daily

Phonics works: Sounding out words is best way to teach reading, study suggests

New research has shown that learning to read by sounding out words (a teaching method known as phonics) has a dramatic impact on the accuracy of reading aloud and comprehension. There has been intense ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Phonics study hopes to end reading wars once and for all

A new scientific study that aims to end the so-called reading wars has found that phonics is an essential foundation in the early stages of learning to read, but it is only part of the approach. The ...
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Empire State schools slow to adopt updated phonics-based curriculum, lawmaker alleges: ‘New York should be leading’

Assemblyman Bobby Carrol (D-Brooklyn) is demanding Education Department administrators mandate schools statewide adopt a phonics-based literacy curriculum, known as the science of reading approach — ...
Education Week

Is Phonics Boring? These Teachers Say It Doesn’t Have to Be

Want to know if it’s time for phonics in Belinda Williams’s kindergarten classroom? Stand in the hall and listen. “I love phonics because it’s something that’s so easy to make fun,” Williams said. “We ...

Mass. House passes reading bill years in the making, rebuffing powerful teachers union

The bill’s passage marks a rare setback for the Massachusetts Teachers Association, although the legislation still needs ...
The Conversation

Isolated phonics lessons aren’t working: here’s a better way to teach young children to read and write

Dominic Wyse receives funding from The Helen Hamlyn Trust for his centre The Helen Hamlyn Centre for Pedagogy, he also receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust. In recent years he has received ...
BBC

Phonics test 'accurate but unnecessary'

The new phonics tests for six-year-olds in England is successfully identifying children who struggle to read, but is no more informative than existing teacher assessment, research suggests. The ...