If you were to poll an audience of educators–classroom teachers, literacy specialists, reading researchers, and university professors–about whether high frequency words should be taught in early ...

An innovative study conducted by MaryAnn Demchak, Ph.D., BCBA-D, professor of special education, in the College of Education & Human Development and Chevonne Sutter, Ph.D., BCBA-D, research assistant ...

The game teaches "sight words" that don't follow typical spelling rules. During the pandemic three years ago, Jacquelyn Davis noticed her son Madden was having a difficult time learning how to read.

Julia starts by doing a mindful moment 5 finger deep breathing exercise. In this lesson, Julia starts by doing a mindful moment 5 finger deep breathing exercise and discusses some learning strategies ...

English doesn't make a lot of sense when you really think about it. Parents don't necessarily make the best teachers-- at least to their own children. Tiffany Jenkins -- the woman behind the popular ...

Being able to recognise the extra 50 most-used words, as recommended by the literacy strategy for the first two years of schooling, meant children gained an understanding of about 2% more of the texts ...

When education is framed primarily as optimizing neural circuitry, we risk losing sight of the full complexity of human ...

There’s a settled body of research on how best to teach early reading. But when it comes to the multitude of curriculum choices that schools have, it’s often hard to parse whether well-marketed ...

Daisy, an eight-year-old Puerto Rican girl, started to cry whenever her third-grade teacher began a reading lesson—but she grinned when the class sang to the tune of Frere Jacques: “Are you happy, are ...