Local YMCA Reads! program helps struggling kindergartners through fourth graders go from "learning to read" to "reading to ...

Early literacy and reading skills are important for your child. A report that the National Commission on Reading released in 1985 showed that one of the most important factors that influence the ...

For some elementary school students, reading lessons are an opportunity to get messy and get out of their seats. Kids learning how to map letters to sounds might trace A’s and B’s in sand or shaving ...

The National Council on Teacher Quality gave poor ratings to three of Maine’s public universities at a time when reading test scores have been falling.

Lindsay Brooks stood at the front of her classroom last week and challenged her first grade students to not just sound out the word "play" written across the board, but to explain why its "A" was ...

KAYSVILLE — Since December, Allie Garlick has become accustomed to elementary school teachers listening to her with a bit of doubt. She understands it. After all, she is approaching them to talk about ...

More than 60 youngsters sat enthralled as Tehama County Librarian Sally Ainsworth, wearing a hot-dog hat, read a children's story during the first day of the Children's Summer Reading Program at the ...

The 74 reports a decline in parents reading to children, linked to past negative experiences and digital distractions, ...

One of the world's most widely used reading intervention programs for young children has taken another hit to its credibility. Reading Recovery — a one-on-one tutoring program for first graders — has ...

School is out, the mercury is climbing at a record pace, and young people across America are at risk of losing the reading and math skills they learned during the academic year. In an average year, ...

Early-elementary teachers work hard all year to support their students’ emerging reading skills. The payoff—gains in literacy progress—tends to come toward the end of the school year, just as it’s ...

Is your child having problems learning to read? Are you looking for help to improve progress in learning literacy skills? According to a Canadian team of researchers headed by Corinne Syrnyk of the ...