Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
Los Angeles Times

Letters to the Editor: Readers applaud the return of phonics, but teaching reading shouldn’t stop there

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...
LAist

How To Teach Reading

A veteran legislator who taught elementary school for 16 years introduced comprehensive early-literacy legislation Wednesday that would impose requirements on reading instruction and add urgency to ...
EdSource

Sharp divisions over how California’s aspiring teachers will be taught to teach reading

CLARIFICATION: The article was revised on April 24 to clarify that the Committee on Accreditation, by law, has the power to accredit programs. The Commission on Teacher Credentialing responds to ...
Des Moines Register

Iowa senators propose guidelines on how to teach reading as Kim Reynolds hones in on literacy

A proposal in the Iowa Senate would limit how language and reading can be taught to early elementary schoolers, laying out specific learning methods such as phonics while Gov. Kim Reynolds seeks to ...
AOL

Could phonics solve California's reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

4:16 p.m. June 2, 2025: An earlier version of this report incorrectly said teaching phonics was new to Long Beach Unified. Some phonics has been taught in the district for years, but a new focus on ...