Winnie zoomed ahead in reading with this kind of help at home. And by the beginning of second grade, she was reading above grade level. Now she loves reading, but here’s the thing. Esti doesn’t know ...

With nearly 60% of California children not meeting state reading standards by the third grade, strong parent-teacher partnerships and a statewide shift toward evidence-based reading strategies are ...

For centuries, reading has been the holy grail of learning; you need to be able to read to learn about almost any other subject. The two main theories of reading instruction are phonics and whole ...

Experts have long known that reading skills develop before the first day of kindergarten, but new research published in the ...

California’s dismal reading scores point to the need to bolster early literacy, but here's why experts say it may be possible ...

It didn’t take long for me to recognize that a handful of my students could not read the district-provided curriculum. I was surprised, because I thought that by fourth grade, students were reading to ...

If you’re able to read, and, hopefully, understand, this opinion, then you’ve got a skill that some people may never learn. Possessing the ability to read is something many of us likely take for ...

In 2001, then-President George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act, which required federally funded schools to adopt Reading First, a phonics-based approach. NCLB, partially inspired ...

The power of poetry and learning to read In his blog, “The Power of Patterns in teaching,” published in The Robb Review, Oct. 4, 2022, Dr. Timothy Rasinski explains that English has many word ...

This is not unusual. Across the US, kids are struggling to read.Last year, reading performance for fourth graders hit its lowest level since 2005, and teachers expect that number to keep tumbling.

Schools try new approach to teach students to read 04:00. Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of ...