The goal of each book is to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners. Kids can ...

KMBC 9 Cares for Kids is partnering with Lead to Read to build a community of readers. You can help us reach our goal of ...

many schools are rethinking how they teach kids to read. In one New York City first grade classroom, Melissa Vega-Jones goes letter by letter, teaching the specific rules that form the English ...

Chris Stanislawski didn’t read much in his middle school English classes, but it never felt necessary. Students were given ...

I've been an English teacher for years and have helped ... I always tell parents to read with their children I have found that many parents don't realize reading to their children is just as ...

Standardizing the curriculum was a priority when Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. came to Philadelphia, and he allocated ...

They have to move on quickly because of pressure for teachers to cram more into the curriculum, the teacher said. “It’s like ...

Civics and history often got the short shrift as teachers focused on mandatory reading instruction. That’s changing.

But teachers of older children—who report that ... In these older grades, it’s not only English/language arts classes that require strong reading skills, but social studies, science, and ...

The British author said no child should feel that studying English at school is irrelevant because ‘they never see themselves ...

In many English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming less common. Some teachers ...

In many English classrooms across America, assignments to read full-length novels are becoming ... it was too hard for most kids in the class. She laments that Detroit feels like “a book desert.” ...