Teachers can help students develop phonemic awareness with these playful activities that engage multiple sensory pathways.

Research shows that reading successfully by the end of third grade is a significant predictor of longer-term school success. And, early reading difficulties lead to long-term consequences, such as ...

Improving early literacy is not just an early education issue – it is one of Arizona’s most powerful strategies for economic success and expanding opportunity.

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Literacy has always been the foundation of learning, but for middle school students, the stakes are especially high. These years mark the critical shift from learning to read to reading to learn. When ...

Texas, one of several states working to bring reading instruction in line with cognitive science, has made a knowledge-building elementary literacy curriculum freely available to districts, individual ...

In classrooms across the country, teachers are rethinking how students build reading comprehension — not just how they decode words, but how they make meaning from text. That shift is part of a larger ...

Barbara Shoup remembers when she taught a freewriting class to fifth graders, one little girl was stumped, struggling to scrawl her pencil across the page. Shoup went up to the girl, “one of those ...

Game-based digital learning provider Prodigy Education today launched a new educational game focused on literacy, building on the popularity of Prodigy Math that is used by 150 million students ...

Kurt Stoppkotte, executive director of the Literacy Council of Grand Island, noted Tuesday that it costs $15,000 a year to educate a student. So why, he said, can’t we spend a few hundred dollars to ...