In April 2024, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul made a bold promise: The state would revamp its approach to literacy and boost ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

American educators have returned to the notion that shared background knowledge is essential to reading instruction, ending a ...

The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating ...

Many states have recently enacted laws or rules designed to ensure that teachers are well versed in evidence-based reading instruction. Here are some highlights. Requires districts to provide core ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In one classroom, students identified literal and nonliteral language: an exercise in labeling text features. Students defined the ...

“If you are just able to decode the words, but you don’t have the context to understand them, you’re not getting to that effective, efficient, purposeful reading for meaning,” explains Dr. Molly Ness, ...

After years of stagnant reading scores in Wisconsin, some school districts are using federal pandemic aid to rethink their literacy instruction. Cudahy, a school district south of Milwaukee with about ...

“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library sends free books in the mail to young children. Educator preparation programs in Pennsylvania are adjusting the way they teach reading to meet new, statewide ...

Some parents are having trouble making sense of their kids' reading assignments while schools are closed. The explanation is a deeply entrenched by misguided approach to teaching comprehension.