For most people, reading is second nature — it’s almost muscle memory. As you read the words on this page right now, you likely are not thinking about how you read or the mechanisms our brains use to ...

Still, the lawmakers behind the legislation – Reps. Justin Fleming, D-Harrisburg, and Jason Ortitay, R-Bridgeville – remain hopeful that their proposal to create a three-step plan to implement a ...

Over the past decade, Pennsylvania has increased education spending by 51%, now spending about $20,900 per student. Despite this, fourth-grade reading scores have steadily dropped, showing that more ...

Educator Amber Moye at City Hall: New Haven “shouldn’t be indebted to a system that doesn’t work.” Amber Moye told city lawmakers she and her fellow teachers got a glimpse of how to change the way ...

PROVIDENCE – For decades, elementary teachers have been teaching students to read the wrong way. The approach, called balanced literacy, teaches students to read a word by figuring out the context: ...

There is a vocal minority of English learner advocates in California who have chosen to argue — without credible evidence — that structured literacy is ineffective for multilingual learners. They ...

The Fall 2021 PALS Report found that reading skills in young learners are at a 20-year low. Over the past three years, reports have shown there had been little growth in reading and in some cases, ...

In an effort to improve reading levels for the city school district’s youngest students, New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) has created a new 90-minute literacy block outline for kindergarten through ...

Editor’s note: This story is the second in a two-part series examining the use of the structured literacy approach to reading instruction. Read the first story at st.news/wenatcheereads. MERCER ISLAND ...

The students in Emily Hoard’s first-grade class trace letters in their sand trays, then break down the sounds the letters make in simple words. This is what the science of reading looks like as Hoard ...

Three Brooklyn schools — P.S. 10 and P.S. 39 in Park Slope and P.S. 130 in Kensington — will each receive $40,000 in state funding to support evidence-based literacy instruction and professional ...