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 ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — March is National Reading Month, a time to reinforce your own good reading habits and teach them to your kids. “There are so many benefits of reading with your children, ...

An elementary school in Ohio has some of the best young readers in the nation. How they did it—and how a new law put it all at risk.

In 2024, The 74 looked for school districts that were doing an exceptional job of teaching kids to read. One of the places we ...

Kids learn to read, and then they read to learn. That’s the saying, at least, and even if the reality is more complicated than that, it’s true that early reading is highly predictive of later-life ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the reading scores of fourth- and eighth-grade students remain poor, the teachers unions and the Clark County School District education overlords remain in denial. Teaching kids to read ...

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 ...

For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...