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 ...

When districts adopt evidence-based practices like Structured Literacy, it’s often with a surge of excitement and momentum. Yet the real challenge lies not in the initial adoption, but in sustaining ...

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 ...

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, ...

A computer screen shows some of the tricky spelling rules that Ann Lawyer, a teacher at Cradle to Career Literacy Center in Emporia, shared with one of her students during a recent online lesson.

Fundations utilizes a structured literacy approach grounded in the science of reading to make learning to read fun while laying the groundwork for lifelong literacy. The program’s research-based ...

In an effort to improve reading levels for the city school district’s youngest students, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has created a new 90-minute literacy block outline for kindergarten through ...

In early 2026, a small group of first-grade students at Lucy Wortham James Elementary School in St. James, Missouri, sat ...

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: ...