Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...

Amid a deepening national literacy crisis, awareness is growing that far too many California children do not know how to read. The problem is not that our children can’t learn, experts say, but that ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. Rising concern over childhood reading skills has led to a reckoning on how reading is taught. Minnesota school leaders see hope in the changes underway, ...

Kaiden was in tears. My first-grade student, struggling through yet another reading lesson, ripped his book in half, hurled it across the room and yelled, “I hate reading!” That moment still haunts me ...

Despite decades of research about how children learn to read, far too many schools across the country still rely on debunked methods and curriculum that fail students year after year. The most ...

My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...

As a kindergarten teacher, a big part of Violet Nye’s job is teaching kids how to read. But the way she teaches her students is very different from how she learned as a kid. She remembers being taught ...

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Picture a student with ADHD whose hallmark symptoms include struggling to sit still and focus for extended periods of time, especially when the subject holds little interest. Then picture that same ...

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 ...