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In rural Missouri classrooms, a new approach to reading is taking hold

In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat ...
The Hechinger Report

‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...
The Hechinger Report

Weighing the best strategies for reading intervention

Brooke Tepper, a special education resource teacher at Columbus School in Carteret, N.J., works on reading fluency with first graders, giving them parts to read aloud in a short play. Credit: Caralee ...
The New York Times

In the Fight Over How to Teach Reading, This Guru Makes a Major Retreat

Lucy Calkins, a leading literacy expert, has rewritten her curriculum to include a fuller embrace of phonics and the science of reading. Critics may not be appeased. By Dana Goldstein For decades, ...
Engadget

Microsoft's tool for AI reading lessons is now a standalone app

Microsoft is rolling out Reading Coach as a standalone app, which will expand its tools for educators in Microsoft Teams. The new app will be part of its Reading Progress suite designed to help ...
YourTango

Teacher Asks Mom To Stop Reading To Her First-Grader Because It’s Made Her Too Smart

When I was little, my mom read to me all the time. Because of her, I developed a lifelong love of books and started reading when I was quite young, jumping ahead of some of my peers. But this was a ...