Toni Cuello meets with a small group of her kindergarten students to study in her classroom one afternoon. It’s the first full week of class at Desert Sky Elementary in West Richland, and these ...

Koerner encourages parents to use “parallel talk” — describing what a child is doing — and “self-talk,” or narrating their ...

Many mobile apps claiming to support early reading skills in children fail to deliver actual educational benefit, with positive app store reviews seemingly driven by esthetics and functionality, a new ...

Most secondary educators don't get much teacher preparation to help students struggling to read. Realizing that its teachers ...

Outside, it was summer, but inside John Lewis Elementary School in Macon, Ga. Quantesha Pittman was teaching third graders to build words. "What's that first sound again?" she asked the room of about ...

Humanoid robot “teaching assistants’’ that listen to children read are under development for classrooms, as busy parents shun reading stories to their own kids.

When The 74 started looking for schools that were doing a good job teaching kids to read, we began with the data. We crunched ...

Recently, an old friend of mine from elementary school ran a hand over my bookshelf, stopped, and said, “You stole this.” “I did not!” “Yes, you did. You totally stole it from school.” She pulled out ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...

Angie Hackman teaches chemistry at Health Sciences High and Middle College in San Diego, where all teachers are required to integrate literacy instruction into their classes. Credit: Image provided by ...

A U.K. couple has revealed the unconventional methods they have chosen when it comes to parenting and educating their three ...