Pennsylvania cannot build a statewide literacy transformation through targeted grants alone. We need a dedicated literacy ...

Evidence-based reading instruction should intentionally develop both reading proficiency and reading engagement, and motivation can be built directly into evidence-based reading instruction rather ...

The Science of Reading program, started by Gov. Mike DeWine, was intended to boost literacy rates in Ohio schools. The ...

In classrooms across the country, children are showing progress in reading, yet many students cannot tell you what those words mean, why they matter or how the text connects to their lives. My first ...

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy instruction in schools nationwide. After decades of debate over the most effective ...

Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...

Schools still face obstacles with the popular approach, including that implementation and teacher supports focus mainly on younger students.

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 ...

Australian schools constantly strive to improve the literacy outcomes of their students. Supporting literacy achievement for struggling readers is particularly important because these readers have ...

In one vision of classrooms of the near future, young children will put on headsets and read sentences aloud as they navigate computer programs powered by speech-recognition technology. Behind the ...

In this policy brief, doctoral student Shannon Kelley presents a brief overview of early childhood literacy including its importance for future literacy achievement. She details six best practices for ...

Utah chose literacy as a statewide focus,” Christine Ivory, C. Hope Eccles and Janet Randall write in an op-ed. “The next ...