In her Pinedale High School literacy lab classroom, Faith Howard prompted her students to decipher an excerpt from the ...

A middle-school teacher in Riverside County, Calif., had students generate keywords from a section of a book, use them to ...

What began as a casual meetup is now a monthly series with a loyal crowd and a no-frills, all-heart approach to writing.

Research shows that asking students to monitor and correct their own understanding of text as they read can boost their ...

The WritersBLOCK / ReadersBLOCK project in Hobart is a reminder of the importance of stories, and the benefits of making time ...

Stop the Summer Slide campaign is now four weeks in.  Have your kids been doing any summer reading?  It is critical to avoid the loss of learning that has become so pronounced during the summer months ...

About 16,238 third graders failed South Carolina reading tests last year. That number has been nearly cut in half.

Wakelyn: Research on 260 districts in 35 states found 3rd-grade reading scores rose in each of the last 3 years. What 3 of them are doing right.

Nearly a quarter of third graders did not pass the state’s reading test on their first try. Many are now in summer school, ...

More students, however, are at risk of retention this year. A total of 6,470, or 11.6%, of Alabama third graders scored below grade level on recent spring reading tests, new state data shows. That’s ...

Johnson City commissioners approved the second reading of the fiscal year 2026 budget on Thursday, with no major changes since last week’s reading.

Molinar noted the district met a literacy goal outlined in its strategic plan, which was to increase the percentage of third-graders meeting grade level in reading on STAAR to 33% by 2025. The ...