A recent report from NWEA found that middle schoolers are showing a noticeable decline in reading abilities. The findings surmise that this is in part due to lack of in-person instruction during the ...

Not real reading, of course—that won't come for several years. But between ages 3 and 5, researchers say, children need to develop the skills that make reading possible.

LIVE IN THE NEWSROOM WITH DETAILS. BRITTANY. WELL, THAT’S RIGHT, GOVERNOR MAURA HEALEY SAYS MASSACHUSETTS IS RANKED NUMBER ONE IN THE COUNTRY FOR SCHOOLS. BUT MANY MASSACHUSETTS STUDENTS ARE ...

It’s never too early to start reading instruction and intervention in our schools. The best time for students to obtain strong foundational reading skills is in grades pre-K-2. During a child’s ...

Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

Learning to read fluently requires hundreds of hours of practice. Some children happily sit and read for hours, but others (especially those with ADHD or dyslexia) cannot. Parents and teachers often ...

Two groups have aimed to find consensus in one contested area of the ongoing reading wars: what the “science of reading” should look like for English learners. In a statement released in October, The ...

For I Love to Read Month, Austin Public Schools outlines how families can nurture strong, multilingual readers at every age, from birth through the teen years.