Early literacy and reading skills are important for your child. A report that the National Commission on Reading released in 1985 showed that one of the most important factors that influence the ...

Cabin John MD – Early learning leader, Learning Without Tears, today affirmed that equity and access are at the core of Phonics, Reading, and Me™—its K–3 supplemental literacy program designed to help ...

Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to ...

For some elementary school students, reading lessons are an opportunity to get messy and get out of their seats. Kids learning how to map letters to sounds might trace A’s and B’s in sand or shaving ...

Lindsay Brooks stood at the front of her classroom last week and challenged her first grade students to not just sound out the word "play" written across the board, but to explain why its "A" was ...

One of the world's most widely used reading intervention programs for young children has taken another hit to its credibility. Reading Recovery — a one-on-one tutoring program for first graders — has ...

School is out, the mercury is climbing at a record pace, and young people across America are at risk of losing the reading and math skills they learned during the academic year. In an average year, ...

KAYSVILLE — Since December, Allie Garlick has become accustomed to elementary school teachers listening to her with a bit of doubt. She understands it. After all, she is approaching them to talk about ...

Looking for fun things for your kids to do this summer? Summer programs can be a fun way to encourage your kids to read more, and they can even earn some exciting rewards and freebies along the way.

A lovely aphorism holds that education isn’t the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. But too often, neither are pails filled nor fires lit. One of the most bearish statistics for the future ...

Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...