Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...

Reading! It is for life. Like riding a bike, once you learn, you know how, with practice comes improvement, just like everything else in life. Reading also opens doors. If you know how to read you can ...

Fourth-grade teacher Angela Mosca moved around her classroom at Mary Eyre Elementary School in Salem one April morning as her students followed along with the day's assigned reading. She read a ...

Most secondary educators don't get much teacher preparation to help students struggling to read. Realizing that its teachers needed help, the Marietta district in Georgia has invested in PD that gives ...

Proven to boost reading scores in 98 per cent of children, the research-backed literacy program is now available in Australia. The Reading Skill Set offers the first modern, screen-free reading ...

Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy is turning a classic video game into a new way for middle schoolers to connect.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Abstract This study explored first-, second-, and third-grade reading instruction and students' (n = 1,586) reading skill growth in Florida ...

Strong literacy skills help students build a foundation for success in school and beyond. But students’ reading skills are stumbling, and in some cases, the declines have been exacerbated by the COVID ...

Jeana Wallace never enjoyed reading as a child. The books she read in school didn’t interest her and “constant deadlines made ...

Here is the simplest thing to understand about the importance of early education: If a child has fallen significantly behind in reading skills by the time he or she is 8 or 9 years old, there might as ...

On the first day of classes I, like most teachers, introduce my students to the syllabus and class expectations. I have draconian-seeming rules that students often don’t believe and even many ...