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 ...

This country has a big problem: its children are not good readers. Five years after the pandemic first closed the nation's schools, national test scores show students backsliding in reading all over ...

“I love reading. Reading is really the reason I became a teacher,” Walker said. “But … I learned how to read fairly quickly and easily and I never understood how to teach it to kids, and I felt really ...

Last September, Savannah-Chatham County public schools tried out an intensive new tutoring program to help struggling readers catch up before state reading tests at the end of 3rd grade. By winter, ...

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, ...

Black headphones with a stack of books on a blue background. The concept of audiobooks and modern education Black headphones with a stack of books on a blue background. The concept of audiobooks and ...

When I had my first child, the advice to me about how to raise a strong reader was simple: Read to her all the time and leave good books around. That guidance reflected the belief that learning to ...

The state of Texas is getting into the business of writing its own textbooks, lesson plans and worksheets for use in public schools. The Texas Education Agency on Wednesday unveiled a range of ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your recommendations for how best to set up and organize small groups in classroom instruction? Many teachers find that well-organized student small-group ...

EdSource · School screen time is rising. California parents are asking where to draw the line At a time of rising interest nationwide in phonics-focused reading instruction, few California districts ...

Thousands of young people and teachers have gathered for a mass reading class, as part of an attempt to break a world record. The attempt, held in Fratton Park in Portsmouth on World Book Day, was ...