Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are grounded in science and tested by expert educators.

Here’s the good news: Most educators have gotten the message that K-5 students need to learn the foundational reading skills outlined in the common core and other college and career-ready standards: ...

The best way to build knowledge is to immerse children in social studies, science, and the arts — the very subjects that have been marginalized to make more time for comprehension skill practice, ...

So you can read. But how? People learn to talk simply through listening — to our parents talking to us and to each other, to the TV talking to the ether, to strangers on the street. But that’s not how ...

"I will get teared up because I think I can't read," fourth grader Raven said. Learning to read isn't fair. It comes naturally for some students. But for others it's a frustrating, agonizing process ...

E. D. Hirsch, Jr. is the founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation and professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books, including ...

GRANNY was right after all, the government announced yesterday. Education Secretary Ruth Kelly told parents she would turn the clock back so their children learn to read the way their own parents did.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Elementary schools across the region are changing up how they teach kids to read. That move is line with a push at the state level to move away from a style of teaching that ...