Amid a widespread literacy crisis in the U.S., schools are still debating on the best way to teach children how to read. Per the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), there has been a ...

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 ...

Parents and grandparents eagerly waited in the entrance at Liberty Arts Magnet School on Tuesday morning to spend the lunch hour sharing a meal and a book with their children.

Recently, an old friend of mine from elementary school ran a hand over my bookshelf, stopped, and said, “You stole this.” “I did not!” “Yes, you did. You totally stole it from school.” She pulled out ...

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

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 ...

We know that many children are failing to learn to read in our nation’s classrooms. So it’s tempting to hope that tutoring by artificial intelligence could provide a solution. But how close are we to ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...