Learning to read is a complex process. It requires children to master and integrate multiple skills, from mapping abstract ...
To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
Playwright Gaven D. Trinidad says when he was young, his father read to him every night, which he called “an incredible act of love.” Trinidad, a first-generation, Filipino-American theater maker, has ...
Music training seems to boost reading skills in young children by enhancing their ability to recognise and manipulate the sounds that make up words. Learning to play an instrument has long been linked ...
When it comes to reading, middle school students need foundational literacy instruction that respects age, cognitive ...
A new peer-reviewed analysis shows K-12 students who got regular access to social and emotional learning had better test scores and better grades. There's been some debate about whether schools should ...
A popular diagram for teaching plot structure to middle and high school students looks like a mountain, mapping out exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It’s an apt ...
Singarum emphasises that at ages 10–12, children are shaping their identities. When adults nurture a love of reading, they’re ...
Loralyn LaBombard is the only reading specialist at Bow Memorial School, a middle school serving grades 5-8 in a leafy town outside Concord, N.H. In the world of literacy education, that is not an ...