Many children enter school in California speaking languages other than English, and they learn to read at the same time that they are learning English. As California aims to improve literacy ...

EdSource · School leaders grapple with Supreme Court decision on religious rights Controversies over how best to teach children to read go back many years. Most recently, two questions have emerged ...

The Welsh government said recent results showed standards were improving and the education secretary had been "clear that ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

To the editor: Education professor Allison Briceño fears overemphasizing foundational skills such as phonics will take time away from writing, favor already advantaged children and ignore the needs of ...

Vocabulary development is often the province of English/language arts instruction. But it’s also a core part of Deaquanita Lancelin’s 9th grade science class in the Pine Bluff schools in Arkansas.

Schools in Michigan are now required to spend omre time in class with English language learners that are behind in reading ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This article reports the results of an experiment investigating the simultaneous effects on ESL reading comprehension of both culture-specific ...

Spanish-English Biliteracy Transfer (SEBT) is a carefully designed multi-day program that equips biliteracy teachers with the skills needed to successfully introduce English into their classrooms.

The new question-of-the-week is: In what ways can reading support writing instruction? It isn’t easy for educators to teach reading, and it isn’t easy for students to learn the skill, either. But, in ...

The top-down pressure to measure up on test scores saps the time and energy needed to promote reading for pleasure.

A new national study shows that Americans’ rates of reading for pleasure have declined radically over the first quarter of ...