New Study Shows How Early Brain Development May Predict Reading Struggles

New research suggests the foundations for reading success begin in toddlerhood. Learn how talking, reading, and word play can ...
Education Week

Want Students to Read on Grade Level? These Strategies Can Help

Are you a teacher, instructional coach, or school leader who is concerned about how to support all students in accessing grade-level texts? If so, you are not alone. In fact, in a survey last year, ...
AOL

For Gen Alpha, learning to read is becoming a privilege

Joshua McGoun, a K-12 public-school teacher in Frederick, Maryland, first noticed a change in his students about 10 years ago. They began to struggle with focus. Increasingly, younger kids were not ...

The high-stakes promise of LEARNS: learning to read, reading to learn

Before a student solves equations, breaks down a historical event, or even starts making sense of science experiments, ...

Rethinking reading: All schools are required to adopt ‘structured literacy.’ Here’s what teachers already using it say

No one was a greater skeptic than Martin Elementary kindergarten teacher Alissa Szewczak when New Kensington-Arnold administrators announced the district would switch reading curriculums. Two years ...
The Conversation

How do children learn to read? This literacy expert says ‘there are as many ways as there are students’

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...