Business Wire

Voyager Sopris Learning Releases New Product Editions for Reading and Writing to Support Teachers and Further Students’ Academic Achievement

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Voyager Sopris Learning, part of Lexia, a Cambium Learning Group brand, announced the newest editions of Sound Partners, a research-based tutoring program to enhance early ...
Fast Company

Why the sensation of touch is so powerful when learning to read and write

“Pat the Bunny,” the 1940 classic touch-and-feel book, is still in print—a testament to the value of touch in introducing infants and toddlers to the world of reading. Later, when children reach ...
Education Week

We Must Integrate Reading and Writing

Kudos to Education Week for rolling out a collection of articles on elementary writing instruction, a vital area of literacy development that fails to get the attention it deserves. As EdWeek’s ...
Science Daily

Children's reading and writing develop better when they are trained in handwriting

Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different ...
Education Week

Reading and Writing Like a Scientist

Allycia Uhrhan’s 6th graders at Truman Middle School in St. Louis started their field-science week collecting data on fish hatching at nearby Forest Park. But the trip really started the prior week, ...
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Improving Adult Literacy Instruction: Developing Reading and Writing

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...
Los Angeles Times

A guide to early learning: What to know for reading readiness

The 2024 Reading by 9 guide was created through the generous support of the Ballmer Group. This year’s guide spotlights articles, activities, book recommendations and more for parents and educators of ...
Forbes

To Boost Learning, Be Cautious About Reading And Writing On Screens

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. Digital devices are here to stay, but studies show that if we rely on ...
AOL

Alzheimer's: Reading, writing, learning new languages may lower risk

Keeping the brain active throughout life by reading, learning languages is tied to lower Alzheimer’s risk. Image credit: Burak Karademir/Getty Images Now a new study published in Neurology, the ...
The Conversation

Writing and reading starts with children’s hands‑on play

Perhaps evolution’s most wondrous manifestation is visible in the unparalleled elegance and versatility in the design of the human hand. The miracle of the hand-brain connection, a development that ...
Forbes

Rigid Approach Has Sucked The Joy Out Of Learning To Read, Experts Say

Corrected, May 23, 2024: An earlier version of this article erroneously presented synthetic phonics and the science of reading as synonymous terms. The headline and body copy have been updated to ...