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Candidates and educators urge return to evidence‑based reading instruction, including phonics
5934716 · May 8, 2025
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Summary
Several forum participants said district literacy instruction should emphasize phonics and phonemic awareness as foundational skills, and called for teacher feedback and potential curriculum changes aligned with research.
Forum participants debated literacy instruction methods and described a local interest in evidence‑based phonics and the ‘science of reading.’
One audience questioner asked where school boards and superintendents were when literacy methods shifted away from…
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