A former teacher and a literacy expert team up to compile a list of products and tips to help teach kids to read.

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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

Books can give children a window into the emotional world. Through the eyes of a character in a story, children can explore feelings and viewpoints other than their own. They can see the social and ...

Congress is taking steps to assert federal influence over reading instruction, with the House Committee on Education and the ...

As a coalition representing educators, parents, business leaders, and other advocates, we were disturbed by the Feb. 4 op-ed “The fallacy of settled science in literacy.” Nancy Carlsson-Paige and ...

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 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 ...

Recently, a friend gave me a hand-me-down kit filled with beautiful wooden games and brightly colored books that promises to teach my child to read. The phonics-based program, the company says, can be ...