Harlyn Bell is a Special Education Teacher and Nashville resident. Since 2017, our country’s education spending has increased by over $1 trillion dollars; however, national reading and writing scores ...

The Fall 2021 PALS Report found that reading skills in young learners are at a 20-year low. Over the past three years, reports have shown there had been little growth in reading and in some cases, ...

Christine Braid works for Massey University in the capacity of a professional learning facilitator. Massey University has had Ministry of Education funding to complete research that this article ...

In a kindergarten classroom, children drilled down on the sounds different letters and combinations of letters can make, and rules to go along with them. “No English word ends in -i. Use a?” their ...

What does drinking coffee have to do with teaching reading? Each is entangled with many interacting variables, making it hard to isolate a single cause (e.g., coffee, a teaching method) for a specific ...

Since the start of this year, all New Zealand schools have been required to use structured literacy to teach reading and writing – including the country’s 310 primary and intermediate Māori-medium ...

PROVIDENCE – For decades, elementary teachers have been teaching students to read the wrong way. The approach, called balanced literacy, teaches students to read a word by figuring out the context: ...

Along with all of the educational technology that’s made its way into the K-12 classroom over the last 10 years, we also now have a constant stream of useful, actionable data that we can use to ...

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 ...

Kim Kohlrus’ 2nd grade classroom is alive with wiggling, chanting children. They’re on their feet, swaying and twisting as their teacher leads them in a call-and-response of letter combinations.