When Ahmed arrived in the United States from Somalia seven years ago, he’d never been to school. He could read the Quran in Somali, but he didn’t know a word of English or even how to read the ...

Young English learners face a two-fold challenge in learning to read. They need to learn how to map spoken sounds to written letters, the phonics skills that allow them to decode words on the page, ...

There are students the world over who, when they want to learn how to read in English, turn to a Napa-based publication, Easy English Times. For two decades, Easy English Times has been used as an ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Don’t let the name fool you. It’s no cake walk putting out the Easy English Times. Four thousand copies of the Napa Valley-based adult literacy and English-as-a-Second-Language newspaper are printed ...

After classes at Raines High School, Ronnie Gadio heads to North Shore Elementary. That’s where Gadio, an 18-year-old senior, works as a Read USA tutor. He has a story that goes beyond statistics ...