Toni Cuello meets with a small group of her kindergarten students to study in her classroom one afternoon. It’s the first full week of class at Desert Sky Elementary in West Richland, and these ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...

A popular three-cuing technique proven to help kids learn to read has become politicized as special interests promote agendas over education. chinnarach - stock.adobe.com Even though much of America’s ...

The University of Akron Friday announced it has received a $950,000 grant to establish a Center for Structured Literacy. “The (center’s) core mission will be the translation of scientific research on ...

Move over “Dick and Jane.” A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

A panel of experts recommended “big shifts” in practice, but many Oregon education preparation programs say they are already ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

Angie Hackman teaches chemistry at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, where all teachers are required to integrate literacy instruction into their classes. Credit: Image provided by ...

Despite a newfound national focus on the science of reading, states, including California, aren’t doing enough to support and train teachers to effectively teach literacy, according to a report ...

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