Learning to read is one of the most important milestones in a child’s life, yet many students struggle to get the support they need. A local literacy organization called STAIR is helping change ...

As studies continue to show that about a third of children in the youngest grades are missing reading benchmarks, voice technology empowers teachers to identify children in need of early intervention ...

Young children who were read five books a day by their parents entered kindergarten hearing over 1 million words more than their peers.

Re “Pandemic Has Pulled Reading Skills Down Into ‘New Territory’” (news article, March 9): The alarming reading statistics that have emerged during the pandemic present an opportunity to overhaul ...

More than 60 youngsters sat enthralled as Tehama County Librarian Sally Ainsworth, wearing a hot-dog hat, read a children's story during the first day of the Children's Summer Reading Program at the ...

That was the response from a handful of K-12 teachers—1st grade classroom teachers, high school math teachers, and those in between—to this question posed by Education Week in a recent (unscientific) ...

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds. Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve ...

The act of reading stories to children holds a lot of weight in our culture; it conjures up notions of bonding between children and their parents or caregivers, of cultivating an early love of ...

They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their names and tie their shoes when schools shut down in the spring of 2020. Now, they’re the big kids at ...

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