Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are ...

For decades, reading scores have remained stagnant at best, and the pandemic made things even worse. K–12 teachers at every grade level have students who struggle to read, and regardless of their ...

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...

Educators are rethinking how reading should be taught in schools. New research has highlighted flaws in decades-old methods. As a result, dozens of states have passed laws or implemented new policies ...

Try a straightforward three-step strategy to help students get comfortable with exploring challenging reading assignments.

For many, the “science of reading” has become synonymous with phonics instruction. Politicians on both sides of the aisle have said the movement to align reading instruction with what the research ...

Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. When Esti Iturralde’s daughter Winnie was in first grade, the girl struggled with learning to read. Like most parents, Iturralde blamed ...

Post by Joanna P. Williams, Teachers College, Columbia University Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, ...

Reading time at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools' new Mint Hill Elementary School. I hate to admit this, but I learned almost as much about reading instruction from four hours of listening to “Sold a ...

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 ...

Reading is a complex cognitive skill that predicts career prospects and social mobility throughout our lifetimes. For ...