PEL Learning Introduces ‘PEL Phonics App’ — Bringing Its Phonics‑Based English Learning Program to Mobile Devices

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 ...
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Inside the Massive Effort to Change the Way Kids Are Taught to Read

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...
Los Angeles Times

Could phonics solve California’s reading crisis? Inside the push for sweeping changes

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
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MFL teaching aids: Making phonics an indispensable tool in language learning (KS3)

And there are so many different ways of bringing it in to match the skill level of the students, and to enhance where they’re going from. In terms of where you would put phonics, in terms of priority ...
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Schools address skills of youngest readers hampered by pandemic learning

SPRINGFIELD — Despite it being years since the start of the pandemic, teachers are still feeling the effects of remote learning. Ian Hartigan, a middle school science teacher at Springfield ...
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Expect more phonics lessons in California schools under law Newsom signed

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill ...