A reading block in an elementary school classroom can feel like a carefully choreographed 120-minute dance. Time is a finite resource, and it often falls to teachers to make decisions about how much ...

A new curriculum teaches young children how to break down words by their sounds and then put them back together.

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 ...

Reading can be both a joy and a challenge, especially when you’re trying to improve fluency or tackle a new language. For students, it’s not just about decoding words—it’s about building confidence, ...

PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) - During the magic of the holidays, a little bit of reading magic can go a long way. At Merriam Cherry Street Elementary, media specialist Lori Young is emphasizing the ...

Mastery of reading requires developing its highly interrelated major component skills: decoding, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. These components are discussed separately below, but they work ...

In echo reading, first read passage first aloud and then have you child echo or copy you. In echo reading, you first read a passage aloud and then have the child/students echo (or copy) you by ...

Heather Miller, a first grade teacher in Austin, Texas, works with a small group of students in her classroom on reading skills. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report The Hechinger Report covers ...