Three new studies offer clues about what makes texts easier and harder for young students to read on their own.
During a recent reading lesson in my 2nd grade classroom, I asked my students to explain the central idea of a short passage. A few hands went up right away. Other students stared at the page or ...
Until a couple of years ago, Lucy Calkins was, to many American teachers and parents, a minor deity. Thousands of U.S. schools used her curriculum, called Units of Study, to teach children to read and ...
High school students can benefit from lessons on how films use visual language to express classic devices like ...
To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...
State-approved math lessons are spreading in San Antonio schools. It's still too early to tell if Bluebonnet Learning is ...