A recent NCTE survey shows educators overwhelmingly value diverse literature—but need help getting it into classrooms.
Wooster City Schools received a $793,489 grant to expand reading support, train teachers and add a full-time reading ...
This recent meta-analysis examined 59 studies of spelling interventions for students who had, or were at risk for, learning ...
Reading aloud is a wonderful way to build a love of stories and language. But listening to books does not, on its own, teach most children how to read. Only about 5 percent of students will learn to ...
To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...
I prefer restaurants that specialize and perfect a certain type of cuisine. I don’t want my barbecue restaurant to offer ...
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 ...
One in four young Americans, aged 16 to 24, cannot read beyond basic text — even as high school graduation rates rise. Data ...
First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly ...
If you’re a parent of a young reader, would you rather start off in Manhattan or Mississippi? The answer may surprise you. Today, fourth-grade students in Mississippi read almost a full school year ...
The new state requirement that teachers catalog the names of all the books in their classroom is drawing complaints from ...