These strategies help teachers set up engaging and enriching opportunities for literacy exploration throughout the day.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a group of Massachusetts parents who claimed their children were harmed by contested reading curricula designed by three prominent literacy experts.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I recently visited classrooms with an elementary school principal in a racially diverse Virginia district that primarily serves ...

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 an elementary educator, writer, and literacy advocate, I support a stronger emphasis on evidence-based reading practices (“Renewed push to overhaul literacy,” Metro, April 22). However, the current ...

In an era where humans have managed to create an artificial intelligence tool sophisticated enough to churn out an essay on Shakespeare, it seems unlikely that there would still be ambiguity about how ...

In a seismic shift based on cognitive science, two of the world's most influential teacher training institutions declare, “We are not teaching balanced literacy.” In recent months, Teachers College, ...

Despite decades of research about how children learn to read, far too many schools across the country still rely on debunked methods and curriculum that fail students year after year. The most ...

Structured literacy is an evidence-based approach to teaching reading and writing that has gained widespread attention for its effectiveness, especially for students who struggle with literacy skills.

This school year, New York City public schools are conducting an experiment: Can they once again teach children to read? Following New York students’ dismal scores on the National Assessment of ...