The COVID-19 pandemic has had a troubling impact on the reading skills of school kids in the youngest grades. A series of new studies indicate that roughly one-third of the youngest school kids are ...

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...

At the Reading League conference, Burns shared tips from a set of guidelines he created with his colleague, Valentina ...

Every year, early elementary teachers welcome students with a wide range of reading abilities into their classrooms. Some kindergarteners may be reading whole books, for example, while others don’t ...

Michigan has two new laws aimed at dyslexia, but districts already embracing the science of reading say it's key to success ...

Fourth-grade teacher Angela Mosca moved around her classroom at Mary Eyre Elementary School in Salem one April morning as her students followed along with the day's assigned reading. She read a ...

As reading scores remain a top concern for schools nationwide, many districts are experimenting with ability-based grouping ...

When my younger daughter was about 3 years old, she would sit in a small chair with her teddy bear on her lap and “read” Frog and Toad books aloud. Sometimes the book was upside down, and sometimes ...

A new study finds that children can develop key reading skills in a virtual classroom with other students. When the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools nationwide, students of all ages -- from ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - Caddo Parish is drawing a line in the sand -- this school year, what students know may matter more than ...

Tina Hamilton-Shoemaker buses her students from Lima Senior to Heritage Elementary School twice a week. There, Shoemaker’s early childhood education students are paired with children from kindergarten ...

A new statewide initiative underwritten by the Lilly Endowment aims to improve elementary students' reading skills.