Celebrate the joy of reading for pleasure with this World Book Day 2026 Live Lesson and supporting teaching resources.

Direct instruction is the reading equivalent of school uniforms, and it makes literature as exciting as a pressed white shirt. One scene in Michael Moore’s documentary “Fahrenheit 9/11" keeps playing ...

Live Lessons are half hour interactive programmes to support teachers and bring curriculum content to life. We work with ...

Despite the billions of dollars devoted to improving reading outcomes, the 2019 NAEP results confirm that our country remains mired in a decades-long literacy crisis: Nearly two-thirds of our nation’s ...

Move over "Dick and Jane." A different approach to teaching kids how to read is on the rise. For decades, two schools of thought have clashed on how to best teach children to read, with passionate ...

School closures as a result of COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to the worsening of learning poverty and the learning crisis. At the core of the learning crisis, there is an instructional crisis.

A third-grader works through a phonics lesson in Washington, Ill. Editor at Large As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

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, ...