Incoming first-graders offered advice to students starting first grade this year. Many students said they were nervous on their first day but made friends quickly. Reading, math and making friends ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Timothy E Shanahan, University of Illinois Chicago (THE CONVERSATION) After decades of ...

Callula Killingly received funding from the QUT Early Career Researcher Scheme and the university's Centre for Inclusive Education. Learning to read is a complex process. It requires children to ...

There’s an old adage in literacy education: First students learn to read, then they read to learn. In theory, children master foundational reading skills in the early grades, and then apply them to ...

Seung-Hee Claire Son, an educational psychology professor and director of the EARLY lab at the University of Utah, spoke of ...

The folks at the Humboldt Literacy Project estimate that some 14,000 of our neighbors in Humboldt are functionally illiterate. That means they would struggle to fill out a form or understand important ...

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