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Have you ever met someone who just… couldn’t do the most basic thing? Like boil water. Or read a map. Or properly use a turn signal?It’s wild how some fundamental life skills—things you’d think ...

Faith Howard’s literacy lab classes helped older students make huge comprehension gains. Now she is working to spread the teaching method across Wyoming, where literacy has been a concern for years.

In recent weeks, there’s been a renewed political pushback against the words ‘socialist’ and ‘secular’ in the Preamble to the ...

By combining these ten tips-grammar, speaking, reading, writing, listening, group practice, technology, media, vocabulary ...

As students prepare for their end-of-year reading assessments, some experts say this year’s tests might be a bellwether to judge if North Carolina’s investment in the “science of reading ...

More than half of Louisiana children from poor families start kindergarten without basic reading skills — and most fail to catch up by third grade, according to a new study.

Fifty children with basic reading comprehension were taught nine letters from the Georgian and Armenian alphabets, as well as 16 pseudowords invented by researchers through combining the letters.

Researchers explored how manual and keyboard practice influenced children's abilities in their reading and writing learning process. 5-year-olds were taught an artificial alphabet using different ...

Balanced literacy prompts children to learn words encountered in authentic literature during guided, teacher-led read-alouds – versus learning how to decode words in word lists.

Many primary pupils in mostly rural public schools in northern Uganda are unable to read or recognize basic words, an education assessment has found, raising alarm over the country’s ...