New York students must learn phonics, Regents decide
Every school district in New York must revert to teaching phonics in grades pre-K through third, starting this fall, the ...
Board of Regents decides phonics should be taught in schools
Changes to the reading curriculum are headed to schools in New York State. The Board of Regents recently decided phonics, the ...
Education Week19d
Parents Sue Lucy Calkins, Fountas and Pinnell, and Others Over Reading Curricula
Both Calkins’ curriculum and those created by Fountas and Pinnell were the focus of “Sold A Story,” the award-winning podcast by APM Reports that detailed the genesis of the cueing method—in which ...
The Boston Globe19d
Two Mass. families sue famed literacy specialists, claiming reading curriculums were intentionally flawed
alleging they deliberately ignored the scientific consensus about the importance of phonics to early reading to the detriment of their children’s learning. The lawsuit, filed in Suffolk Superior ...
BBC29d
School wants inclusive tests for non-verbal pupils
Phonics is the technique used in schools to teach children to read. Pupils are taught to identify and repeat letter sounds. Those sounds then combine to form words that they read aloud.