Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.

Phonics is the base for learning English. Unfortunately, it was cast aside during the whole-language movement. (“‘I Literally Cried': Teachers Describe Their Transition to Science-Based Reading ...

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 ...

Phonics is a method that teaches children how to read by linking letters together based on sound groups. Together, these alphabetical combinations can aid children to easily begin pairing them by ...

There has been a longstanding discussion in the reading wars since the 1950s, when the novel “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ...

We know that many children are failing to learn to read in our nation’s classrooms. So it’s tempting to hope that tutoring by artificial intelligence could provide a solution. But how close are we to ...

Re “‘Kids Can’t Read,’ and the Education Establishment Faces a Revolt” (news article, April 16): Congratulations to Sarah Mervosh for her article about reading instruction that gets beyond stale ...

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 grade-level ...

Experts have released robust research to show that phonics should be taught hand-in-hand with reading and writing to encourage true literacy and a love of reading, not through narrow synthetic phonics ...

The decision to require all New York City elementary schools to teach a phonics-based curriculum will make New York a national leader in literacy education. The mandate, announced by Mayor Adams last ...

It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...