Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...
Seeing a child curled up with a book as they independently learn to read the words and find the meaning in a story is a heartwarming image. We have been taught that learning to read is akin to ...
Literacy is one of the most important skills children learn, setting them up for a lifetime of potential success. An early indicator of future success is how much a child is read to by a parent, ...
The National Council on Teacher Quality has given failing grades to three public universities in Maine for how their teacher preparation programs teach reading ...
This content is sponsored by McLean School. If your child is struggling to learn to read, you are not alone. Only about 30 percent of students in the United States are reading proficiently, a decline ...
For Lisa Parry, a 12th-grade teacher in South Dakota, the students' essays were getting stale. Her solution: get the students to turn to ChatGPT ‒ which serves up fresh ideas. Before her students ...
Literacy rates in the United States have been declining for over a decade, with the COVID-19 pandemic worsening the trend. Experts suggest that language development begins in utero and that reading to ...
As a kindergarten teacher, a big part of Violet Nye’s job is teaching kids how to read. But the way she teaches her students is very different from how she learned as a kid. She remembers being taught ...
Dominic Wyse currently receives funding from the Helen Hamlyn Trust and The Welsh Government. Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach ...
India is moving to curb children’s screen use, proposing social media bans while pushing newspapers back into ...