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 ...

Small-group instruction has been a popular component of K-3 literacy education for many years. However, there are inevitable ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading.

Ten Ohio colleges and universities – including many of the state’s largest – aren’t following a new state law to train future ...

Learning to read is a complex process. It requires children to master and integrate multiple skills, from mapping abstract ...

Consistently poor spelling can indicate that a child has dyslexia or another related learning challenge. If that's masked by ...

A new study suggests that traditional learning activities like making notes remain critical for students' reading comprehension and retention, while also suggesting that large language models (LLMs), ...

Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

In Meagan Beam’s dining room, a dozen 3D printers whir and clack away as they crank out plastic tiles with colorful raised letters, letter combinations and pictures on them. The tiles are part of a ...

The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters make in simple words. This is what the science of reading looks like as Hoard ...

A Grade 4 study in Makhanda mirrors the national pattern, with isiXhosa-medium learners far behind peers learning in English.