Re “Pandemic Has Pulled Reading Skills Down Into ‘New Territory’” (news article, March 9): The alarming reading statistics that have emerged during the pandemic present an opportunity to overhaul ...

A couple of months back, my Harvard class on educational assessment met virtually with Sondra Mims and Comer Yates, CAO and CEO of the Atlanta Speech School, who asked the class to make a few educated ...

The benefits of reading with children are innumerable. Children who read with their caregivers report higher levels of reading comprehension, fluency and self-confidence. But do you know of its mental ...

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds. Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve ...

That was the response from a handful of K-12 teachers—1st grade classroom teachers, high school math teachers, and those in between—to this question posed by Education Week in a recent (unscientific) ...

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As schools and state lawmakers work to address a slide in youth reading proficiency during the pandemic, there is a massively important role parents and caregivers can play as well. Parents of kids as ...

Like athletes train to keep their muscles strong, children need to flex their brains over the summer months to maintain the knowledge they gained over the last school year. Reading and literacy are ...

The act of reading stories to children holds a lot of weight in our culture; it conjures up notions of bonding between children and their parents or caregivers, of cultivating an early love of ...

More than 60 youngsters sat enthralled as Tehama County Librarian Sally Ainsworth, wearing a hot-dog hat, read a children's story during the first day of the Children's Summer Reading Program at the ...

School’s out. Summer will soon be here. And with it will come the perennial concern that elementary schoolchildren will forget what they learned during the academic year. Parents and teachers have had ...