A new national study shows that Americans’ rates of reading for pleasure have declined radically over the first quarter of ...

If you’re a parent of a young reader, would you rather start off in Manhattan or Mississippi? The answer may surprise you. Today, fourth-grade students in Mississippi read almost a full school year ...

What barriers do students face when asked to read text and show their comprehension of it? This question was posed by an English/language arts teacher and educational consultant to a group of ...

A 2015 photo shows pre-K students Vida Sanchez (from left), Leah Pina, Isabella Jaramillo and Carlos Escobedo sitting on a carpet while listening to their teacher read a Spanish children's book titled ...

It’s taken four decades, but using phonics to teach English soon could be state policy. Phonics is where kids are taught a language with a phonetic alphabet by sounding out the letters and ...

Test scores weren’t improving, and learning outcomes weren’t where they needed to be. So it was time for a change, literacy ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Hanif Abduraqqib. Sarah Kay. Elizabeth Acevedo. Clint Smith. Do any of these names sound familiar? How about Amanda Gorman? All of these writers are part of America’s thriving contemporary poetry ...

Teaching English as a second language has been a popular way to travel and work for many decades, but thanks to the internet, now you don’t need to leave your house to be able to teach ESL to students ...

An elementary school teacher smartly used food to teach her students a lesson. Kayleigh Sloan teaches a creative writing class to first and second-graders. To teach a valuable lesson about where the ...

The top-down pressure to measure up on test scores saps the time and energy needed to promote reading for pleasure.