Structuring reading — particularly for early readers — is highly debated among parents and teachers. Veteran educator Stephanie Freeman has watched schools become “more and more powerless” in the ...

Structured literacy, the science of reading and evidence-based literacy practice have become buzz words in literacy education. However, they are often used quite flippantly and without proper ...

Parents walking their young children into school for the first time may get excited at the books lining classroom walls – but those collections of books aren’t necessarily a guarantee their kids are ...

And district officials in Los Angeles and Houston said that a bump of a few points for 4th graders over the 2003 reading results, though not statistically significant, gave them greater confidence in ...

Jan. 18—It was 8:30 a.m. on a Thursday in Miss Katie's second grade class, and the kids were on a treasure hunt for silent letters hidden in words their teacher displayed. Teacher Katie Wiederholt — ...