Phonics gets more attention in elementary English/language arts classrooms than other core foundational reading skills, like fluency. More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing foundational ...

Educators don’t need to choose between building students’ knowledge and teaching reading comprehension strategies. The question isn’t whether to teach strategies—it’s how to do it and when. “Are we ...

Misconceptions about how to help kids understand what they read are widespread, and some experts are unintentionally adding to the confusion about comprehension "skills" and strategies. Some ...

Your child comes home and asks for help with their homework. You want to help, but you struggle; this sure doesn’t look like the homework you brought home back in the day. That’s why KBTX has begun ...

What is a Lesson Plan? An effective lesson plan demonstrates how a teacher creates objectives for his or her students and measures how those objectives are mastered. Creating a lesson plan begins with ...

For Claudia Margaroli, teaching reading during the coronavirus school shutdowns has looked nothing like what she used to do in the classroom. Instead of small group work, the 1st grade teacher at ...

Science has evolved in reading research, especially in the areas of developmental psychology and neuroscience. Recent reports in refereed scientific journals have focused on multidisciplinary ...

National and state reading scores for elementary school students are down. And in Berlin, New Hampshire, some teachers and parents say there’s a literacy crisis happening in their school district. At ...