If your child has just started school, phonics expert Ann Sullivan shares her top tips for helping them at home ...

Kids who don't read at grade level by third grade are at much greater risk of dropping out of school and are less likely to ...

Earlier this summer, the curriculum and assessment company Amplify reported that 70% of kindergartners and first graders were ...

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 ...

For some elementary school students, reading lessons are an opportunity to get messy and get out of their seats. Kids learning how to map letters to sounds might trace A’s and B’s in sand or shaving ...

It’s that time of year when kindergartners proudly march across the stage to receive a certification of completion, enjoy the summer, and look ahead to 1st grade. This transition once represented a ...

Remember all the loops, curls, and swirls involved with learning how to write in cursive? Well, movies aren't the only thing that can be rebooted. Cursive has been made part of the ELA Standards' ...