Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Visited recently by one of his former students, Minnesota teacher Eric Kalenze was ...

The READ Act would put a stamp of approval on (and money behind) the “science of reading” approach, which combines phonics ...

Reading involves the skill of decoding written words into meaning. The first step, decoding, is the process of teaching children how to connect symbols with sounds. In layman’s terms, this is ...

Teachers in all content areas can create opportunities for fluency practice to help get students reading fluidly and ...

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...

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Just slowing down gives you time to question and reflect. Morsa Images/DigitalVision via Getty Images The average American checks their phone over 140 times a day, clocking an average of 4.5 hours of ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...