"We don't want them guessing the word, we want to give them the tools ... the years of students reading below basic levels shouldn't be considered an indictment against balanced literacy or ...

Each episode of Reading Rainbow had the same basic elements: There was a featured ... "But you don't have to take my word for it ..." "The series resonates with so many people," says John Grant ...

As students prepare for their end-of-year reading assessments, some experts say this year’s tests might be a bellwether to ...

She dissected the word “intermolecular,” and its prefix ... That’s because so many students arrive at the school struggling with basic reading, some scoring at the first- or second ...

They grow their sight vocabulary by memorizing “high-frequency” words. They often avoid reading ... compared to 9 percent of children with basic reading skills. Even when teachers do recognize ...

In other words, to teach kids how to read ... most U.S. fourth graders had attained only basic or below basic reading skills, according to the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress.

More generally, states’ new reading laws emphasizing ... the ability to understand basic organization and features of print, such as following words left to right; phonological awareness ...

The percentage of eighth graders who have “below basic” reading skills according to NAEP was the largest it has been in the exam’s three-decade history — 33 percent. The percentage of ...