The Be Your Own Hero Motivational Network brought in Ant-Man and local firefighters to help teach reading to first graders at Riverbank Elementary.

Literacy is one of the most important skills for children to learn, but many are falling behind. A 2023 study found that approximately 40% of children in the U.S. are unable to read at their grade ...

The University of Louisiana at Lafayette’s College of Education received high marks for preparing prospective elementary school teachers how to teach reading. Its undergraduate and graduate elementary ...

Most states (29 states and the District of Columbia) use a weak elementary teacher reading licensure test, meaning that they do not effectively measure teachers’ knowledge of scientifically based ...

Cody Beck reads a book that was assigned by his teacher at Grenada Middle School. Since April, Cody has been on a “homebound” program due to behavior, where he does his work at home and meets with a ...

Why do so many students struggle to understand what they read, even after they learn how to read? That’s a topic of hot debate among reading researchers. One camp has been arguing that schools have ...

A proposal in the Iowa Senate would limit how language and reading can be taught to early elementary schoolers, laying out specific learning methods such as phonics while Gov. Kim Reynolds seeks to ...

Everyone agrees that the early years of reading instruction are critical. But there are still vigorous debates among practitioners about how exactly to teach children to read—and new data confirm that ...

The number of teacher-preparation programs that teach reading instruction that’s aligned with the greater body of cognitive research has increased significantly over the past seven years, according to ...

Many children who do not have trouble learning how to read do have trouble understanding what they read. Yet surprisingly, comprehension instruction did not receive much attention from reading ...

Three of Maine’s public universities received failing grades in 2023 for one of the most critical things they do: prepare ...