Learning to read is one of the most important milestones in a child’s life, yet many students struggle to get the support they need. A local literacy organization called STAIR is helping change ...

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds. Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve ...

That was the response from a handful of K-12 teachers—1st grade classroom teachers, high school math teachers, and those in between—to this question posed by Education Week in a recent (unscientific) ...

The act of reading stories to children holds a lot of weight in our culture; it conjures up notions of bonding between children and their parents or caregivers, of cultivating an early love of ...

More than 60 youngsters sat enthralled as Tehama County Librarian Sally Ainsworth, wearing a hot-dog hat, read a children's story during the first day of the Children's Summer Reading Program at the ...

School’s out. Summer will soon be here. And with it will come the perennial concern that elementary schoolchildren will forget what they learned during the academic year. Parents and teachers have had ...

They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. Now, they’re the big kids at ...

Music training seems to boost reading skills in young children by enhancing their ability to recognise and manipulate the sounds that make up words. Learning to play an instrument has long been linked ...