1.   A little girl sat with a teaching assistant who reviewed the phonics lesson in the center of the room.

2.   But now, state and district authorities interfere more, sometimes requiring teachers to follow scripted phonics lessons.

3.   That was followed by a phonics lesson, in which students read aloud from a list of about two dozen vocabulary words and were drilled in their definitions.

4.   This approach is used, alone or with traditional phonics lessons, in an overwhelming majority of the public schools.

5.   Rivera was scheduled to begin one-on-one phonics lessons with a local minister five days after he was killed.