The COVID-19 pandemic has had a troubling impact on the reading skills of school kids in the youngest grades. A series of new studies indicate that roughly one-third of the youngest school kids are ...

Every year, early elementary teachers welcome students with a wide range of reading abilities into their classrooms. Some kindergarteners may be reading whole books, for example, while others don’t ...

Fourth-grade teacher Angela Mosca moved around her classroom at Mary Eyre Elementary School in Salem one April morning as her students followed along with the day's assigned reading. She read a ...

Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...

Across Oregon, conversations about low reading proficiency have put a spotlight on the importance of early literacy and the districts working hard to make real progress. In South Umpqua School ...

Strong literacy skills help students build a foundation for success in school and beyond. But students’ reading skills are stumbling, and in some cases, the declines have been exacerbated by the COVID ...

When my younger daughter was about 3 years old, she would sit in a small chair with her teddy bear on her lap and “read” Frog and Toad books aloud. Sometimes the book was upside down, and sometimes ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Mark C. Perna is a generational expert who covers education & careers. The ability to read is a skill that’s easy for many adults ...

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Kansas' director of Blueprint for Literacy urges the Legislature to blend it with the state Board of Education's Every Child ...