Kaiden was in tears. My first-grade student, struggling through yet another reading lesson, ripped his book in half, hurled it across the room and yelled, “I hate reading!” That moment still haunts me ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

What should an elementary reading block look like? For such a common part of the school day, it’s surprising to find that there’s no one right answer. More than 40 states have passed legislation ...

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Tens of thousands of North Carolina elementary school teachers have now been retrained in how to teach young children how to read, the state's top education official announced Tuesday. Schools have ...

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 ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...