Many elementary school classrooms incorporate touch and movement into reading lessons. But research on the practice is ...

Teaching Reading for All is designed for grade 3-8 teachers, paraprofessionals, instructional coaches, and school-based leaders. Building on the work of BC faculty, the workshop reviews the current ...

1. Teaching phonics is great and absolutely necessary, but beware of non-phonetic words such as those spelled with “ough” (tough, bough, ought, through, though).

Teaching a child how to read is truly rocket science since our brains are not wired to read. Many teachers, myself included, leave their credential programs without the knowledge to meet the ...

Supporters of bolstering how teacher candidates in California are taught to teach reading cheered in 2021 when the Legislature agreed and mandated change. They remained enthusiastic a year later when ...

Schools try new approach to teach students to read 04:00. Only about one-third of elementary school students in the U.S. are reading at grade level, according to the recent National Assessment of ...

The goal is for high school graduates to attain “reading levels ready for college.” The school has expected teachers to integrate literacy into their lessons since its 2007 founding.

On Reading. Why Some People Become Lifelong Readers. By Joe Pinsker. A lot rides on how parents present the activity to their kids. Read the article.

I received my teaching credential in California and didn’t learn one thing about how to teach reading. I learned about structured literacy and how to inform my teaching with reading science on my own ...

The results are “troubling,” said Justin Ohlemiller of advocacy Stand for Children Indiana, an education advocacy group, especially when combined with the state’s low national reading scores.

A balanced approach. In 2022 a landmark research paper by Wyse and Alice Bradbury concluded that a balanced approach to teaching reading was more effective than a narrow synthetic phonics approach ...

By 2025, new Indiana teachers will be required to demonstrate their proficiency in the science of reading—a term for a wide body of research that emphasizes phonics, fluency, vocabulary ...