This is the first time since the 2020–21 school year that early reading readiness has failed to improve year over year, ...

My 2nd grade students have been working very hard all year long on learning what fluency is and what good fluency should sound like. At the beginning of the year, my students thought that fast reading ...

With the new school year now rolling, teachers and school leaders are likely being hit with a hard truth: Many students are not proficient in reading. This, of course, presents challenges for students ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reading is freedom. It opens up the world. In my day job as an education researcher, I know that too many kids never learn to read ...

The science of reading has made a much-needed comeback in recent years, with several states enacting policies for educators training on it. However, fluency practice doesn’t have to occur only at ...

Abby Houlton teaches in a special-education classroom at Brookridge Elementary School in Overland Park, Kan. Reading is a fundamental component of a basic skills-oriented education – one of the "three ...

When it comes to reading, there's always room for improvement! And it starts at home. Even if your child can read, practicing can hone the skill and a little bit of encouragement can work wonders when ...

For typically developing readers, fluency—or the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and expression—is often simply a product of practice. Having mastered the letter sounds, decoding rules, and a ...

When Inside Higher Education recently interviewed college students about their reading, a University of Florida sophomore claimed she relied entirely on YouTube videos to explain her reading. Academic ...

Acquiring the ability to read is a key developmental milestone in a literate society. In the past few decades, numerous scientific studies in early literacy skills acquisition have indicated that ...

ROCK ISLAND -- When Omar Perez was a kindergartner, he couldn't read or speak English fluently. Now, the second grader at Longfellow Elementary can do both. Omar, 7, is an example of the minor ...

A renown cognitive psychologist is touting the importance of spelling for reading achievement. In his highly regarded new book, Raising Kids Who Read [1], cognitive psychologist Dan Willingham says ...