Miss a teaching step and students fail to learn. To the editor: I am so happy that phonics will be a focus in California schools again. When I was in second grade in the 1950s, my class spent Tuesday ...

The phases provide milestones to guide instruction from preschool to grade two reading proficiency.

Those concepts are phonics (the relationship between letters ... has just changed," she said. In one first-grade class at Allendale-Fairfax Elementary, for instance, teacher Carrean Fagan was ...