Cumberland Valley School District educators identified a problem when students in the upper elementary grades struggled to read books that had complex words and no pictures. Many entered school with ...

From the beginning of the 2025 school year, all schools will be required to use structured literacy—also known as "phonics" or the "science of reading"—to teach children how to read. But the very ...

Amid a nationwide literacy crisis, New Mexico stands out for its dead last ranking in reading performance on the federally administered nation’s report card. Arsenio Romero has been New Mexico’s ...

Christine Braid consults as a literacy facilitator for Tātai Angitu, Massey University. She received funding from the Ministry of Education for a research project (2015-2017). James Chapman is quoted ...

The NAEP results in late 2022 revealed that reading scores fell for both fourth and eighth grade readers as a result of the pandemic. Only 33 percent of fourth graders are reading proficiently, which ...

Along with all of the educational technology that’s made its way into the K-12 classroom over the last 10 years, we also now have a constant stream of useful, actionable data that we can use to ...

OXFORD, Mass., Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Wilson Language Training (Wilson), a leading provider of Structured Literacy solutions, today announced the launch of Fundations® K–5, an expansion of its ...

The announcement for the new hub says the hub’s stated mission is to ensure every child has the opportunity to unlock the power of literacy. Why the focus on literacy—specifically,structured literacy?

Literacy unlocks opportunity. With nearly half the state’s public-school students reading below grade level, there’s no excuse for Washington schools not to use research-backed, effective teaching ...

Letters can shape a life, yet for many, they’ve long remained out of reach. Studies suggest that Dyslexia affects 20 percent of the population in the US, which represents 90 percent of all those with ...

Hilary A Smith is co-convenor of the Languages Alliance Aotearoa NZ and president of Applied Linguistics in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is a past president of the Teachers to Speakers of Other Languages ...