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 ...

Learning to read, unlike speaking, walking, or understanding the world around us, is not something humans do naturally.

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

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 ...

Re: “Far too many California children can’t read” (Page A7, June 17). Denise Amos says that California districts encourage students to memorize words, and believes they should instead be using phonics ...

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 ...

Re “We’re Bad at Teaching Kids to Read,” by Nicholas Kristof (column, Feb. 12): Mr. Kristof has sadly jumped on the current “phonics” bandwagon. Why do so many teachers resist using a heavy phonics ...

Readers discuss an article about a trend back to emphasizing phonics. To the Editor: Re “She Helped Transform Reading Lessons. Now She’s Backtracking” (front page, May 22): As an educator for 30-plus ...

K. Dara Hill does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...