Teaching 1st grade also means managing a lot of transitions—helping students move quickly and calmly from one activity to another, or giving them small “brain breaks” to move and stretch. At the ...

Amira Learning, one of the most widely adopted offerings on the market, has contracts in 10 states. Several big providers of early reading curricula and intervention materials—including McGraw Hill ...

It’s no secret that kids love smartphones and tablets because they’re engaging and easy to use. But they can also be learning tools that inspire kids by demonstrating experiences and offering ...

We are all faced with choices when it comes to how we read. Some of us prefer the tactile experience of turning pages in a printed book, while others would rather have the compact, mobile convenience ...

T heresa MacPhail is a pragmatist. In her 15 years of teaching, as the number of students who complete their reading assignments has steadily declined, she has adapted. She began assigning fewer ...

Getting lost in the pages of a good book is the highest form of entertainment for many people. If you’re a big reader, you probably already know how easy it is to lose all sense of time when absorbed ...

Much attention is paid to the 81% of South Africa’s Grade 4s who cannot read for meaning. Leanne Kelly considers the stories ...

The Republican-led State Board of Education will set the list. Early title suggestions include "Romeo and Juliet" and "The ...

Whether you’re the reader who rips through a new book each week or the one still slogging through that bestseller your friend recommended months ago, psychologists (and their research) say your time ...

Jeana Wallace never enjoyed reading as a child. The books she read in school didn’t interest her and “constant deadlines made ...