Brooke Tepper, a special education resource teacher at Columbus School in Carteret, N.J., works on reading fluency with first graders, giving them parts to read aloud in a short play. Credit: Caralee ...

The response, at least in its ideal form, was not to narrow literacy instruction but to strengthen it. Schools restored ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

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

In the dynamic realm of education... The art and science of teaching reading have been subject to continual debate and evolution. Educators find themselves at the forefront of this discourse, ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What are your recommendations for how best to set up and organize small groups in classroom instruction? Many teachers find that well-organized student small-group ...

When Alison Campbell, a third grade teacher at Lindenwold School 4 in New Jersey, began the 2021-2022 school year, only 40% of her students were reading on grade level. By the end of the school year, ...

A 2019 Gallup study that included 128 schools and more than 110,000 students found that student engagement and hope were significantly positively related to student academic achievement progress in ...

Literacy experts warn the state’s teacher training contains errors and outdated approaches that could sabotage a move to ...

An alarm sounded last week when results from NAEP showed faltering 4th and 8th grade reading levels for America’s young people. Now, several national organizations have committed to a national effort ...

Two-Day Event Helps Educators Translate Literacy Data Into Action. SYRACUSE, N.Y., April 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Reading ...