Reading with your kids is important. We all know this. If you’re like me, you dive into book after book with abandon. But it turns out that by plowing through stories, we may be missing a key step: ...

Every year in Shaun Banks’ class, her 4th graders write a biography about a philanthropist who has benefited their community. Banks, who teaches in Chicago Public Schools, asks her students to use ...

Editor’s Note: In 1988, a teacher most commonly had 15 years of experience. In recent years, that number is closer to just three years leading a classroom. The “On Teaching” series focuses on the ...

Hyperlexia first appeared in the literature in a 1967 paper describing young children with reading skills exceeding their language comprehension skills (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967). The initial ...