Submit your letter to the editor via this form. Read more Letters to the Editor. Phonics alone won’t get kids reading Re: “ Far too many California children can’t read ” (Page A7, June 17 ...

Limbach believes the drop in reading scores for elementary students can be attributed to a lack of phonics instruction in early education. “The biggest thing I notice with students in the ...

Letters to the Editor: Phonics gets kids over an early reading hump. What happens after that? A teacher works with sixth- and seventh-graders on a phonics lesson in Poway, Calif., in January 2020.

At a minimum, schools should teach children to read. But for years California’s elementary schools have been failing many of them. The results are so obvious even those who struggle to read can ...

Phonics was one of the tried and true methods that was used to teach reading back in the day (I’m almost 80). Even now, I use it to sound out new words that I come across.

Instead, a “science of reading” — or phonics-based — approach to literacy means students are taught the individual sounds of vowels, consonants, groupings of letters, phonograms and other ...