It's no secret New Zealand is facing a literacy crisis. Education Minister Erica Stanford has voiced serious concerns about ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Experts explain how best to prepare very young children to read. Children who are reading on their own as early as age 2 or 3 are the outliers, literacy experts said. Recently, a friend gave me a hand ...

When a child shares a book with a parent or carer, this encourages joint attention, helping adults to connect with their ...

Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...

Literacy Services of Wisconsin helps adults who want to get their high school diploma or strengthen their reading skills to ...

Literacy rates have been falling in Milwaukee for over a decade. But there are new leaders, new money and new efforts to fix ...

This content is sponsored by McLean School. If your child is struggling to learn to read, you are not alone. Only about 30 percent of students in the United States are reading proficiently, a decline ...