A couple of technological innovations can make it easier for parents to help children who have fallen behind in reading. A couple of recent initiatives can help families boost kids’ reading ability ...

This article is part of the collection: Data Bytes: Parsing Education Data Into Snack-Size Servings. BROWNSVILLE, Texas — It’s nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Perez is hard at work in the ...

Literacy is built on the below pre-reading skills. These are the foundations of your child’s path to becoming fluent readers. These skills are supported when you, as a parent, use the five early ...

Reading is the major concern of the Oklahoma State Department of Education as they keep a close eye on progress at Tulsa Public Schools. The state has new benchmarks for the district. Reading Partners ...

Kattie Hogan spends two 56-minute periods each day helping small groups of 6th and 7th graders at a suburban middle school in Detroit with reading, writing, speaking, and listening. She’s having more ...

Anywhere from 5 to 20 percent of the population struggles with dyslexia, a learning disorder that involves difficulty reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and how they relate to letters ...

As a high school science teacher, Fawn Phillips, who’s been teaching the subject since 1999, said she had never really thought about the problems her students were having with reading—nor did she have ...

From hearing lullabies to the sing-song lilt of a parent’s voice, babies form strong connections with their caregivers through sound and song. Think about the way we instinctively bounce or rock fussy ...

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Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...

Reading fluency is the ability to read with proper speed, accuracy, and expression. Children, and people in general, must be able to read fluently in order to understand what they’re reading. This ...

Australian children are facing some big challenges. NAPLAN data shows about one in three students in years 3 to 9 are behind in reading-related skills. It is also estimated about one in seven children ...