There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

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Humans are hard-wired to appreciate stories, and there is a huge diversity of stories geared toward upper elementary and middle school students. However, interest in reading and learning often ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. Ava Wherley likes to read—especially thrillers. She rarely reads nonfiction, but when she does, she ...

Hugh Gundlach received partial funding for this research from the Australian Association for the Teaching of English's Seed Grant for Classroom Research funding. He is affiliated with the Victorian ...

“We do one book after state testing, and we did ‘The Great Gatsby.’ … A lot of kids had not read a novel in class before.” — Laura Henry, 10th-grade English teacher near Houston “My son in 9th grade ...