"Teachers need space and support to respond to student needs, not top-down mandates," writes one reader. Another notes the ...

Hmong is a language with a strong oral tradition and was not formally written until the 1950s. A new audiobook aims to meet ...

Mike Wood, the founder of LeapFrog Enterprises, died by physician assisted suicide surrounded by his family on April 10.

It’s the most basic hurdle in reading, and the strategies a teacher gives can make the difference in a student’s literacy ...

The idea that the “science” in reading instruction only supports phonics instruction has been “hard to dislodge,” said Maria ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at ...

Despite decades of research about how children learn to read, too many schools across the country still rely on debunked ...

Phonics strategies begin by teaching children to recognize letters and make their corresponding sounds. Then they advance to manipulating and blending first-letter sounds to read and write simple ...

Even if the animals repeat the sound, she says, “we have to think whether that’s actually an understanding of language—or whether it’s the same as teaching a dog to sit because they get a ...