Her child, who uses they/them pronouns, was in second grade when the family enrolled them at an elementary school in Los Angeles County that was using a phonics-based curriculum. Although her child ...

Honig was operating at a higher level of ambition ... schools to move the needle in reading instruction away from whole-language and toward its archenemy—the phonics method.

Phonics is the understanding of how letters represent sounds and how to break down words while reading and put them ... And it will help students behind grade level. “Because some dyslexia ...