Anne Arundel County Public Schools’ first year using an evidence-based curriculum to teach reading has been embraced by students and teachers despite a few shortcomings, which include the rigid ...

In early literacy, the goal is simple but urgent: Help students become independent readers and writers. Every instructional decision we make either moves them closer to that goal or keeps them ...

My nonlinear path to the Science of Reading was a frustrating, difficult journey--it didn’t need to be Nationally, the 2008 recession was affecting the school community and due to budget cuts, it also ...

"The puppies don't care if you get stuck on a word. They're just happy to sit in your lap. So much confidence has come from this program," Brooke Hughes said Getty A Delaware teacher is proving that a ...

Key points All first graders should show development in two critical phases, Phases 3 and Phase 4, leading to automatic word reading and spelling. In Phases 3 and 4 writing samples, you see evidence ...

The largest school system in the country enters its second year of an ambitious, multi-year journey to overhaul how it teaches children how to read this fall. Across New York City, schools have ...

The mission of public schooling is to offer every child full and equal educational opportunity, regardless of the background, education, and income of their parents. To achieve this goal, no time is ...

Ohio is not alone in its change to reading education. It was one of 17 states that passed laws or implemented policies on reading instruction in 2023, according to EducationWeek. The states vary ...

My post doc after finishing my degree in 1984 was teaching first grade at the bilingual elementary where I had done dissertation research. As I headed out into the real world, a widely admired ...

In this second of a two-part post, I collaborate with co-author Dr. Molly Ness of Fordham University to show how analysis of writing in children as young as kindergarten shows evidence of foundational ...