The country is in the midst of an extraordinary literacy crisis. Today, 70% of kids who are graduating aren’t reading ...

Explore research on handwriting automaticity and sentence construction, plus strategies to improve writing instruction across grades K–3.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the past few years, the Philadelphia School District has used a homegrown curriculum created by Philadelphia teachers. This ...

A new state law will require districts to update literacy curricula for grades K-4 to align with research on how to teach ...

Kudos to Education Week for rolling out a collection of articles on elementary writing instruction, a vital area of literacy development that fails to get the attention it deserves. As EdWeek’s ...

H.W. Smith students, left to right, Kaymani Harris, De'Nya "Lucy" Chambers and Trey Hunter pose with Samantha Howard, a literacy tutor with the Literacy Corps program. Howard is a junior at SU.

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

March is National Reading Month, a celebration that encourages reading for all ages and promotes reading as a key feature for learning, social, and professional development. As we celebrate the value ...

Every Monday and Wednesday for the past year, Dorise Adams and Mary Anne Carr have met in a classroom at United Methodist Church to achieve their singular goal: to receive their high school diplomas.

This online resources helps middle school students improve their literacy. The site provides games and 120 hours of supplemental resources. Teachers can access free digital lesson library online to ...

According to the Literacy Council of Fort Bend County, 19% of adults, or about 154,000 - 174,000 people in Fort Bend County, ...

85,000 adults in Kent County read below a 4th-grade level. These are people who most often moved to the United States for safety or opportunity, many times leaving behind a familiar life and ...