Exactly how much reading of whole books—especially novels—students should be doing is a contested topic, with no clear ...
Alabama, Louisiana, Massachusetts, and Mississippi—have shown that adopting more rigorous literacy standards and scientific ...
English learners are sometimes an afterthought in 'science of reading' policies. Some educators want to change that.
Classroom coaching is a proven strategy that improves reading scores with relatively little investment, and state school ...
Join the Center for Teaching and Learning for lunch and a talk about strategies to overcome that perennial challenge: getting students to do the reading. Jennifer Black of the Department of English ...
Dianne Brewington, an instructor with Literacy KC at their newest headquarters in the old Westport Middle School in Kansas City. The organization that helps adults and families to improve literacy ...
Reading aloud is a wonderful way to build a love of stories and language. But listening to books does not, on its own, teach most children how to read. Only about 5 percent of students will learn to ...
Learning to play an instrument has long been linked to improved reading skills among children, and we may finally understand ...
University of Southern California professor Helen Choi had a pretty basic assignment for her students this fall: Read a book. To be sure, Choi’s pedagogical choice isn’t novel for many faculty; 71 ...