Schools can use this schedule block to guide students to engage with texts in a structured, collaborative, and joyful ...

A popular diagram for teaching plot structure to middle and high school students looks like a mountain, mapping out exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. It’s an apt ...

The “science of reading” movement has brought sweeping changes to the curriculum teachers use in the classroom and the professional development they take—but educators still voice substantial ...

When students learn to read in the early elementary years, developing phonemic awareness, decoding skills, and blending typically take priority. Another essential component of fluent reading, however, ...

Before every important test, teacher Nancy Barajas dims the lights, turns on a disco ball and blasts music from her playlist. Her sixth graders dance together as a “pre-celebration” to boost their ...

The nation’s students face a deepening reading crisis, with most states showing minimal progress in recent years, a new study shows. Los Angeles Unified, Compton and Modesto school districts have ...

I n his recent essay, “My Students Can’t Read,” Tyler Jagt warns of “a measurable, generational collapse in sustained reading and writing,” and surveys some possible causes of the decline. He names ...

Texas is on the verge of requiring its more than 5 million public school students to study Bible stories, as the state emerges as a leader in a national conservative effort to infuse Christian ...