A former teacher and a literacy expert team up to compile a list of products and tips to help teach kids to read.

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Sharp’s son is enrolled in New Worlds Reading Initiative, a program designed to improve literacy skills in young readers by providing them with free monthly books. Motivated by her son’s excitement, ...

A popular three-cuing technique proven to help kids learn to read has become politicized as special interests promote agendas over education. chinnarach - stock.adobe.com Even though much of America’s ...

Credit Gov. Kathy Hochul with recognizing that New York needs to drastically up its game when it comes to teaching kids to ...

To argue that schools are over-teaching phonics is to risk being seen as a naysayer—someone who believes the tide will ...

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 ...

After decades of stagnating reading performance, American literacy levels have begun to drop, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a program of the Department of Education.

Editor's note: All opinions, columns and letters reflect the views of the individual writer and not necessarily those of the IDS or its staffers. A few weeks ago, I was reading “Green Eggs and Ham” to ...

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers weren’t explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the ...