PEL Learning launched the PEL Phonics app to support early literacy by helping young learners practice phonograms, letter sounds, and pronunciation at home. HAYWARD, CA, UNITED STATES, January 2, 2026 ...

To the editor: Your editorial on reforming reading instruction highlighted what a disaster “whole language” has been for literacy in our public schools. This movement decades ago to step away from ...

A good many public figures maintain that the way to raise reading scores is to require that all children learn reading by the method known as “phonics.” ‘He had frogtank where he had hidden it,” reads ...

In what appears to be a first, the state Department of Public Instruction is endorsing "explicit phonics instruction" as a critical component in teaching children to read. And the department said ...

Editor's note: With low reading proficiency scores across the state, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin is exploring the causes and consequences of low literacy. This article is part of the By the Book ...

As California launches a new literacy campaign, some advocates worry that for English learners, a focus on sounding out words will come at the expense of learning the meaning of words. State ...

To the editor: “English is a phonetic language,” states a letter writer who taught reading — but, I must add, only to a point. Just a brief look at the previous sentence will show numerous exceptions ...

The reality, however, is that it’s simplistic to merely blame the pandemic. The erosion of English reading skills, particularly in public schools, started decades ago with a long-simmering war on ...

Government data has shown that in 2022-23, 30% of five-year-olds in England were not meeting the expected standard for literacy at the end of their reception year at school. Literacy was the area of ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The policies on teaching reading have insisted that an approach called “systematic ...

There’s a great saying by author Anna Quindlen: “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey.” And she’s spot on. Books, and the ability to read them ...