In the front of the fluorescent-lit interior classroom, Andrea Parks read aloud from a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, stopping frequently to question her students: what did we just read? What ...

The results are “dramatic,” said Devin Kearns, a professor in early literacy at North Carolina State University, who was not involved with the study. Gains from UFLI are equivalent to 8 months of ...

The app immediately starts teaching your kids to associate letters with their sounds and that those letter sounds come ...

Schools are working now to overhaul literacy teaching to comply with a new state law, the Read Act. A visit to one Minnesota ...

Teaching children how to identify and combine parts of words is an important component of a comprehensive approach to reading ...

Reading doesn’t just happen. It’s a skill that has to be learned, which means it has to be taught. And since reading is foundational to success in just about every ...

Ms. Rachel, who we all know and love from YouTube, is making her big appearance on the streaming platform on January 27, 2025 ...

Find out why teaching English spelling explicitly is essential for literacy and why shortchanging spelling instruction is ...

Nearly 300 letters from children and adults, nestled one by one in Santa's mailbox, are right outside of the Parsons home. "Every night, our elf, 'Buddy' comes from the North Pole, takes all the ...

Simple words like "the" and "of" are everywhere, but don't follow regular phonics patterns. How should teachers approach them?

So, next time you sit down with your little one, think beyond letters and numbers—teach them skills that truly matter. Parents mostly focus on teaching toddlers the ABCs or numbers. While these ...

People can't be forced to use seat belts or gun trigger locks, but many would, and the lives of many young children and suicidal teens and adults could be saved. Write: Letters to the editor ...