{"id":68,"date":"2026-03-26T19:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:25:33","slug":"phonics-is-crucial-but-how-much-is-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/2026\/03\/26\/phonics-is-crucial-but-how-much-is-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Phonics Is Crucial. But How Much Is Too Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edweek.org\/teaching-learning\/phonics-is-crucial-but-how-much-is-too-much\/2026\/03\">Sarah Schwartz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the most influential names in the \u201cscience of reading\u201d movement has issued a surprising warning: After years of neglecting to systematically teach students foundational reading skills, he says, some schools may now have moved too far in the other direction.<\/p>\n<p>Phonics\u2014how letters represent sounds\u2014is critical to reading. But once students have mastered its rules, the bulk of their time should be spent working with authentic texts, experts say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are indications, circumstantial indications, that what\u2019s happening is a lot of overteaching,\u201d said Mark Seidenberg, an emeritus professor of psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, at the March 2 annual symposium of the AIM Institute for Learning and Research, a literacy professional development group.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt isn\u2019t essential that they need to have three years of instruction about phonics in 128 sessions,\u201d he offered by way of an example in an interview with Education Week. \u201cThere\u2019s opportunity costs, and if you do it too much, it\u2019s going to take away from other things that kids need to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/sedso.io\">Fast Lane Literacy<\/a> helps children learn to read in as little as 23 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Schwartz: One of the most influential names in the \u201cscience of reading\u201d movement has issued a surprising warning: After years of neglecting to systematically teach students foundational reading skills, he says, some schools may now have moved too far in the other direction. Phonics\u2014how letters represent sounds\u2014is critical to reading. But once students have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sedso.io\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}