A recent report from NWEA found that middle schoolers are showing a noticeable decline in reading abilities. The findings surmise that this is in part due to lack of in-person instruction during the ...
What should a young reader do when they come to a word they don’t know? It’s the most basic hurdle in reading, and the strategies a teacher gives can make the difference in a student’s literacy ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: Each month, Dayton Daily News reporter Eileen McClory highlights local ideas that improve outcomes for students and teachers in the Dayton area. While Ohio now requires all schools to ...
The “science of reading” movement has shifted early reading practices across the country, with more than 40 states mandating that schools explicitly teach beginning readers how to decode words. So why ...
Five years after the pandemic forced children into remote instruction, two-thirds of U.S. fourth graders still cannot read at grade level. Reading scores lag 2 percentage points below 2022 levels and ...
Know your attention span. How many minutes can you read before your mind wanders? The average is 20-30 minutes. Know how many pages you can read in an attention span. For instance, 10 pages in a ...
A Jacksonville school uses miniature horses to help students with developmental differences improve their reading skills. The Horse Powered Reading program helps reduce student anxiety and builds ...
Gen Z students are arriving at college with such feeble reading skills that some are incapable of even comprehending full sentences — forcing professors to start reading to them aloud in class, ...
Boys’ reading struggles are not inevitable, research suggests, and addressing the deficit could improve outcomes in school and beyond. By Claire Cain Miller Claire Cain Miller is working on a series ...