Controversies over how best to teach children to read go back many years. Most recently, two questions have emerged that leave teachers of English learners puzzled: First, does research on reading, ...

Many children enter school in California speaking languages other than English, and they learn to read at the same time that they are learning English. As California aims to improve literacy ...

After 14 years in education, I consider myself to be a good reading teacher. Unfortunately, the path to getting where I am today was a long, frustrating journey. Growing up, as the child of two ...

There are many sounds in English that don’t exist in Spanish, and vice versa. Take the sound the letter “z” makes in English, or the rolled “r” in Spanish. In the Southside independent school district ...

It’s agreed across the spectrum of education that, ideally, until third grade kids learn to read and, after that kids read to learn. A wealth of statistics show that children who are not reading ...

Almost 1 in 4 students are enrolled in a dual-language, Spanish-English program in the Southside schools in San Antonio. So when the district embraced the “science of reading,” it prioritized figuring ...

As a teacher in Oakland, Calif., Kareem Weaver helped struggling fourth- and fifth-grade kids learn to read by using a very structured, phonics-based reading curriculum called Open Court. It worked ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

MORE than 5000 years after the invention of writing, you would think we would have completely nailed the best way to teach people to read – literacy is a key skill in most societies, after all. But ...

Sue Ollerhead does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Ohio needs to improve its teaching programs to better teach young children to read, a recent Fordham Institute report says, as the state continues to focus on third-grade reading as a key marker ...