Multilingual students read and comprehend more when teaching materials are culturally relevant to them, as veteran North Carolina educator Terri Ashchi ...

Most reading research over the last 25 years has focused on how to help children learn to sound out or decode words. Relatively fewer studies have tackled the thorny problem of helping students ...

With the end of the six-year period of Reading First on the horizon, no clear empirical picture has emerged of how well the federal program is doing at a national level in bringing struggling readers ...

Research in education rarely draws on the substantial body of scientific evidence on how learning works. That’s a problem for teachers, students—and the rest of us. Researchers and academics focus on ...

A dozen college students are saying the word "pat" and jotting down notes about the sounds being made. "Puh - AH - tt" Pay attention to the shapes your mouths make as you pronounce the word, instructs ...

Schools in Florida and across the nation are working to address learning loss from pandemic disruptions. Early predictions suggested the spring closures may cost students a third of a year’s learning ...

A study has found that individuals accustomed to reading long texts such as books or newspaper articles tend to have superior reading comprehension skills. However, it was revealed that only 1 in 5 ...

When Alison Campbell, a third grade teacher at Lindenwold School 4 in New Jersey, began the 2021-2022 school year, only 40% of her students were reading on grade level. By the end of the school year, ...

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We are learning more about how our children learn and that is changing how teacher are teaching. A new law says schools in Indiana are required to adopt a reading curriculum that aligns with the ...