Jennifer Zavodny, a teacher at Academy Early Childhood Center, wrote 'Piper the Pumpkin' to help kindergarteners learn ...

Nationally, fourth grade students’ reading scores have been sliding for a long time.  But in the past five years, Louisiana ...

In most states, schools are required to screen students as they enter kindergarten—a process that is meant to identify ...

At least 1.5 million students from nearly 4000 public schools will miss out on full “Gonski funding’’ from taxpayers for ...

When students at Moline Elementary gather for reading lessons, their teachers now use strategies that go beyond memorization — helping children connect sounds, letters, and meaning. It’s part of a ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing ...

Supporters of the bill hope it will improve literacy instruction and outcomes while opponents worry that it is overly prescriptive and will limit the methods teachers have available to teach students.

A new California law is pushing for phonics-based reading instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms. The law provides training for school principals and reading specialists in ...

While not mandatory, the law provides support for phonics — focused on vocabulary, comprehension and sounding words out — to ...

First HISD took the libraries. Now teachers say the district’s curriculum leaves no room for storybooks and some are secretly reading to students anyway.

As educators across Oklahoma look for ways to close literacy gaps, the Reading League Oklahoma is helping teachers gain the tools and training they need to help every student learn to read — not just ...

Government "pressure” on schools in phonics means that the overall books budget is increasingly squeezed, The Bookseller’s Children’s Conference has heard. The panel "How the book trade can help ...